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(Originally published 1891, this book presents the complet...)
Originally published 1891, this book presents the complete text of the Psalms of Solomon with an English translation. The text also contains a detailed introduction, incorporating theological discussion and historical information, along with extensive editorial notes and indices. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the psalms, theology and the history of Christianity.
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He was born within England at Eyton-on-Severn near Wroxeter, Shropshire. Herbert was of a younger branch of the earls of Pembroke which had settled in Montgomery castle.
He was the elder brother of George Herbert.
Edward Herbert was the eldest son of Richard Herbert of Montgomery Castle (a member of a collateral branch of the family of the Earls of Pembroke) and of Magdalen, daughter of Sir Richard Newport, and brother of the poet George Herbert.
He returned to Oxford with his wife and mother, continued his studies, and learned French, Italian and Spanish, as well as music, riding and fencing.
After attending University College, Oxford, he was knighted at the coronation of James I in 1603.
He waited in vain for further employment and during the Civil War kept a low profile at Montgomery.
He made no resistance when parliamentary troops occupied the castle in 1644, being anxious to preserve his books.
Herbert's many publications include De veritate (1624), an early deist exposition, and an admiring Life of Henry VIII (1649).
But he is best known for his Autobiography, first published by Horace Walpole in 1764.
Herbert was not inhibited by false modesty and pays warm tribute to his own valour, appearance (‘I could tell how much my person was commended’), irresistible sex appeal, and good breath.
George Saintsbury, a strong-minded critic, dismissed him as ‘not a very bad poet, a very great coxcomb, and a hero chiefly by his own report’.
Herbert's major work is the De Veritate, prout distinguitur a revelatione, a verisimili, a possibili, et a falso (On Truth, as It Is Distinguished from Revelation, the Probable, the Possible, and the False). He published it on the advice of Grotius.
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From 1604 to 1611 he was Member of Parliament for Merioneth.
On 28 February 1599, at the age of 15, he married his cousin Mary, then aged 21, ('notwithstanding the disparity of years betwixt us'), who was daughter and heiress of Sir William Herbert (d. 1593).
During this period, before he was 21, he started a family.
