DONELLAN LECTURE
864
DONOSO-CORTES
menced the stady of law at Lincoln's Inn, advancing, at the same time, in liberal edacation under the care of able masters. After examining the question of re- ligion thorouglily, he decided in &vor of Protestant- ism. At this time, and for years after, he had no de- sign of entering the ministry; he therefore sought civil employment, and upon several occasions accompanied expeditions and embassies abroad. From his youth he exhibited powers of no ordinary character. Be- fore he was twenty be wrote lus satires, which, Hume admits, ** flashed with wit and ingenui^,'* though he speaks of *' coarseness of expression.'* While yet a young man he wrote the most of his poems, some of which were of a licentious nature, leading us to in- fer that his life at this time was impure ; this conclu- sion is strengthened by the utterances of deep peni- tence in many of his sermons. When about thirty years of age he was involved in a difficulty with his father-in-law, Sir George Moore, which resulted in his committal to prison for a short time. A lawsuit for the possession of his wife followed, and so impover- ished him that he was compelled to depend upon his relatives. He now applied liimself to the study of the civU and canon law, the fruit of which may be seen in some of his discourses. An invitation to enter the ministry, extended by Dr. Morton, afterwards bishop of Durham, was declined. He soon began to attract the notice of the chief men of the day, and, being fre- quently at court, that of the king, who regarded him as a man of wit and learning. In 1610 the king was so well pleased with his remarlLS on supremacy and allegiance, made one day a^ table, that he commanded him to embody the arguments in a formal treatise. He complied, and in the same year published his Psm- cfo-tnorfyr, in which he showed that Roman Catholics ought to take the oath of allegiance. On perusing it, the king insisted that he should enter into orders, which, after two or three years spent in the study of theology, he did. He was immediately appointed chaplain to James I, and soon after was admitted D.D. at Cambridge. For a while, in 1617, he suspended his clerical functions, fh>m grief at the loss of his wife. Soon after resuming them he was appointed to the deanery of St. Paul's. Preferments now came, so that he was soon raised from a condition of anxious penury to one of comparative af&uence. in which he forgot not his fHends and the poor. He also helped his fother- in-kw. He died March 81, 1631. Donne's epistolary writings are models in their kind. Some of his poems are very fine. But his sermons constitute his great title to enduring reputation. With a style somewhat like that of Sir Thomas Browne, he combined a power of illustration, an artistic skill, and a " capability of administering to thought" equalled by but one or two of his great contemporaries. His sermons are remark- able for subtle trains of thought and of argument. His published works are, 1. Paeudo-martyr (1610, 4to) : ^2. Etfoys m Divimty (1651, 12mo):— 8. JgnaHus^ his Conclave ; a Satyr ^ with an Apology for the JesuUs (1658, 12mo) :— 4. Paradoxes^ Essays^ Characters^ to which is added a Booh of Epigrams^ m LalUn^ translaied by J. Maine, D.D. (1662, 12mo):— 5. The Works of John Donne, D.D. (1839, 6 vols. 8vo). This is the best edi- tion of his sermons. It is compiled f^om the old folio of 1640, and contains, in addition to the sermons, De- votionSf Letters, and Poems. Besides the above is an essay entitled Biathanatos, a declaration that suicide may not always be sin. This was published fourteen years after his death, and contrary to his wishes, ex- pressed in a letter to the earl of Ankerum, in which he says, " It is a book written by Jack Donne, and not by Dr. Donne." See Walton, Life of Donne; Alford's Ufe of Donne, in Donne's Works, vol. vi,^nd Preface to same, vol. i (edit of 1889) ; Hume, History of Eng- land, voL iv, 524; Coleridge, Works (New York edit), V, 78 sq. T>oneUan Leotore, a coarse of lectures founded
by the provost and tenior fidkiws of Tia^i Dublin, in fulfillment of a legacy of £12^ kltaj dated February 22, 1794, to that ot»lkge,Vpr Donellan, ** for the encoiira|;«D«Bt of nfigai. ing, and good manners." The lectmv is nually on the 20th of Koremba^-tfaa irilpii determined at the time of electaoB lir tie the course consists of six sermons, d^rori college chapel after morning aerriK. lectures printed are Graves, Lectures m Ik (1807, 2 vols. 8vo, London) ; Sadlelz; (h it tions (Dublin, 1822, 2 vols. 8vo) ; KenBtdr- Mosaic Rbcord of CreaJ&on (London, 1821^ ^) The Prophecies relating to Amtickrist (pstSn, 2 vols. 8vo); McDonnell, On iMe Almitm ^.
DonoBO - CorteB, Juak (Frasciioo< Maria-de-la-Salud), marqaia de count del Valle, was a politician, diplomatist, historian, theologian, p^mepbeLu much the ablest and most eminent of ncm SfHl authors. He was bom May 9, 1808, at LaVifai Serena, a village of Estremadnrm. At axtsa Wti completed his preparatory studies, wfaick occupied with history, philoeophy, and ^ education in jurisprudence was prosecatBil ii^r» versity of Seville. In 1880 he married aad xiMj Madrid. He received some public devoted his talents chiefly to liteiatiire. la HUi entered the Cortes as representatrre oi ihs fR-n of Cadis. He took the skle of Mafia CfariMaa apm the Carlists, rose to high favor in the eoeit aim appointed private secretary to <|oeen IsabeikR ~ office he resigned in 1845 on becoming a matitri the royal council. He was an earnest advooto^* French marriages. In acknowledgment of bns^ he was created by his sovereign Marquis de Ti^ mas. Viscount del Yalle, and was dedicated k ' Philippe with the Grand Cross of the Legioe ef &■