Duke of Devonshire

Really, really interesting.

And he runs the dogs for the Buccleuch estate, for the Duke.

And as far as I'm aware...

What happened is the King's dog used to belong to the Queen.

So Dave Lisser is a joiner by trade and I'm a brick player by trade, so we're traders together.

And it takes you, this sport takes you from a world where you'd never expect to meet the king or the queen or dukes into a world where you get to meet kings, queens and dukes.

You know, being a bricklayer from Bradford in England, I would never have thought it could be possible to meet a Duke.

I've been fortunate enough to meet the Duke of Devonshire at a trial recently.

So this is Walpole again.

Last night, the Honourable and Reverend Mr. James Brundanell... was admitted a doctor of opium in the ancient University of White, being received at end, and by his grace, the Reverend Father in Chess, the Duke of Devonshire, who was the president of the rest of the senior fellows.

So it was very indicative of the way the British aristocracy, or its men at least, They came together, they'd meet together, they'd party together, and they'd gossip together.

And obviously they were indulging in sex and drugs and rock and roll, but just a 1740s version.

Marvell dismissed him with a jest, and Danby went away smiling.

By the first Duke of Devonshire and those members of Parliament who were so singular as to place their country's interest above all others, in spite of the inducements of those in power, Marvell was as much esteemed as he was by Bishops Stillingfleet and Cross, and by Baxter Howe, Owen, and the Nonconformists.

If we only knew more about the poet's relations with the men of his day, whom he was able to trust in political and religious matters, some valuable literary discoveries might be made.

Thompson, who edited his works towards the middle of the 18th century, and added amongst other pieces the great ode on Cromwell, said, I have reason to believe that there are many valuable remains of Mr. Marvell's erudition in the possession of private families, if people knew where to lay their hands on them.

chapter one of he can who thinks he can this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by kirk ziegler he can who thinks he can by orison sweat marden chapter one he can who thinks he can i promised my god i would do it in september eighteen sixty two when lincoln issued his preliminary emancipation proclamation the sublimest act of the nineteenth century he made this entry in his diary i promised my god i would do it does any one doubt that such a mighty resolution added power to this marvelous man or that it nerved him to accomplish what he had undertaken neither ridicule nor caricature neither dread of enemies nor desertion of friends could shake his indomitable faith in his ability to lead the nation through the greatest struggle in its history napoleon bismarck and all other great achievers had colossal faith in themselves it doubled trebled even quadrupled the ordinary power of these men in no other way can we account for the achievements of luther wesley or savonarola Without this sublime faith and this confidence in her mission, how could the simple country maiden, Jeanne d'Arc, have led and controlled the French army? This divine self-confidence multiplied her power a thousandfold until even the king obeyed her and she led his stalwart troops as if they were children.

After William Pitt was dismissed from office, he said to the Duke of Devonshire, I'm sure I can save this country and that nobody else can.

for eleven weeks says bancroft england was without a minister at length the king and aristocracy recognized pitt's ascendancy and yielded to him the reins it was his unbounded confidence in his ability that compelled the recognition and led to the supremacy in england of benjamin disraeli the once despised jew he did not quail or lose heart when the hisses and jeers of the british parliament rang in his ears he sat down amid the jeering members saying you will yet hear me he felt within him the confidence of power that made him prime minister of england and turned sneers and hisses into admiration and applause much of president roosevelt's success has been due to his colossal self-confidence he believes in roosevelt as napoleon believed in napoleon there is nothing timid or half-hearted about our great president he goes at everything with gigantic assurance with that tremendous confidence which half wins the battle before he begins it's astonishing how the world makes way for a resolute soul and how obstacles get out of the path of a determined man who believes in himself there is no philosophy by which a man can do a thing when he thinks he can't what can defeat a strong man who believes in himself and cannot be ridiculed down talked down or written down poverty cannot dishearten him misfortune deter him or hardship turn him a hair's breadth from his course whatever comes he keeps his eye on the goal and pushes ahead what would you think of a young man ambitious to become a lawyer who should surround himself with a medical atmosphere and spend his time reading medical books do you think he would ever become a great lawyer by following such a course no he must put himself in a law atmosphere go where he can to absorb it and be steeped in it until he is attuned to the legal note he must be so grafted upon the legal tree that he can feel its sap circulating through him how long will it take a young man to become successful who puts himself in an atmosphere of failure and remains in it until he is soaked saturated with the idea How long will it take a man who depreciates himself, talks failure, thinks failure, walks like a failure, and dresses like a failure, who is always complaining of the insurmountable difficulties in his way, and whose every step is on the road to failure? How long will it take him to arrive at the success goal? Will anyone believe him or expect him to win? majority of failures begin to deteriorate by doubting or depreciating themselves or by losing confidence in their own ability the moment you harbor doubt and begin to lose faith in yourself you capitulate to the enemy every time you acknowledge weakness inefficiency or lack of ability you weaken your self-confidence and that is to undermine the very foundation of all achievement so long as you carry around a failure atmosphere and radiate doubt and discouragement you will be a failure turn about face cut off all currents of failure thoughts of discouraged thoughts boldly face your goal with a stout heart and a determined endeavor and you will find that things will change for you but you must see a new world before you can live in it is to what you see to what you believe to what you struggle incessantly to attain that you will approximate trust thyself every heart vibrates to that iron string i know people who have been hunting for months for a situation because they go into an office with the confession of weakness in their very manner they show their lack of self-confidence their prophecy of failure is in their face in their bearing they surrender before the battle begins they are living witnesses against themselves when you ask a man to give you a position and he reads this language in your face and manner please give me a position do not kick me out fate is against me i am an unlucky dog i am disheartened i have lost confidence in myself he will only have contempt for you will say to himself that you are not a man to start with and he will get rid of you as soon as he can if you expect to get a position you must go into an office with the air of a conqueror you must fling out self-confidence from yourself before you can convince an employer that you are the man he's looking for you must show by your very presence that you are a man of force a man who can do things with vigor cheerfulness and enthusiasm self-reliance which carries great vigorous self-faith has ever been the best substitute for friends pedigree influence and money it is the best capital in the world it has mastered more obstacles overcome more difficulties and carried through more enterprises than any other human quality i have interviewed many timid people as to why they let opportunities pass by them that were eagerly seized by others with much less ability and the answer was invariably a confession like the following i have not the courage said one i lack confidence in myself said another i shrink from trying for fear i shall make a mistake and i shall have the mortification of being turned down said a third it would look so cheeky for me to have the nerve to put myself forward said a fourth oh i do not think it would be right to seek a place so far above me said another i think i ought to wait until the place seeks me or i am better prepared they run through the whole gamut of self-distrust this shrinking this timidity or self-effacement often proves a worse enemy to success than actual incompetence take the lantern in hand and you will always have light enough for your next step no matter how dark for the light will move along with you do not try to see the long way ahead one step is enough for me a physical trainer in one of our girls colleges says that his first step is to establish the girls in self-confidence to lead them to think only of the ends to be attained and not of the means he shows them that the greater power lies behind the muscles in the mind and points to the fact so frequently demonstrated that a person in a supreme crisis as in a fire or other catastrophe can exert strength out of all proportion to his muscle he thus helps them get rid of fear and timidity the great handicaps to achievement i believe if we had a larger conception of our possibilities a larger faith in ourselves we could accomplish infinitely more and if we only better understood our divinity we would have this larger faith we are crippled by the old orthodox idea of man's inferiority there is no inferiority about the man that god made the only inferiority in us is what we put into ourselves what god made is perfect the trouble is that most of us are but a burlesque of the man god patterned and intended a harvard graduate who has been out of college a number of years writes that because of his lack of self-confidence he has never earned more than twelve dollars a week a graduate of princeton tells us that except for a brief period he has never been able to earn more than a dollar a day these men do not dare to assume responsibility their timidity and want of faith in themselves destroy their efficiency the great trouble with many of us is that we do not believe enough in ourselves we do not realize our power man was made to hold up his head and carry himself like a conqueror not like a slave as a success not as a failure to assert his god-given birthright self-depreciation is a crime if you would be superior you must hold the thought of superiority constantly in the mind a singularly modest man of so retiring a disposition that at one time he did not show half of his great ability whose shrinking nature and real talent for self-abasement had actually given him an inferior appearance told me one day how he had encountered this tendency toward self-depreciation among other things he said he had derived a great benefit from the practice he had formed of going about the streets especially where he was not known with an air of great importance as though imagining himself the mayor of the city the governor of the state or even president of the united states by merely looking as though he expected everybody to recognize that he must be a person of note he changed not only his appearance but also his convictions it raised him immeasurably in his own estimation it had a marked effect upon his whole character where once he walked through the streets shrinking from the gaze of others and dreading their scrutiny he now boldly invites even demands attention by his evident superiority for he has the appearance of one whom people would like to know in other words he has caught a glimpse of his divinity he really feels his superiority and his self-respecting manner reflects it be sure that your success will never rise higher than your confidence in yourself the greatest artist in the world could not paint the face of a madonna with a model of depravity in his mind you cannot succeed while doubting yourself or thinking thoughts of failure cling to success thoughts fill your mind with cheerful optimistic pictures pictures of achievement This will scatter the specters of doubt and fear and send a power through you which will transform you into an achiever.

No matter how poor or how hemmed in you may be, stoutly deny the power of adversity or poverty to keep you down.

Perhaps one of the items that best shows the hidden power behind Kennedy is his daughter's marriage to William Cavendish and Joseph Kennedy's comments about it.

Kathleen married the Duke of Devonshire.

The Duke of Devonshire was very prestigious position within the British nobility.

Dukes are second only to the monarchy.

Joseph Kennedy was often heard saying, if Kathleen and her husband were living, I'd be the father of the Duchess of Devonshire, first lady and waiting to the queen, and the father-in-law of the head of all the masons in the world.

When Kennedy ran in politics, Hart's Boston American wouldn't even accept Kennedy's opponent's paid political advertisements.

Joe Kennedy worked for the FBI after World War II.

JFK's favorite sister, Kathleen, married William Harrington, whose father was the 10th Duke of Devonshire, a pillar of the Church of England called the Episcopalian Church in the U.S., and a high-ranking Freemason.

And they were in Chattahamn Castle last night.

It's down to Duke of Devonshire.

It was a pleasure to meet him.

You know, he's a captain, he's more.

They weren't, of course, the first.

Lord Nelson famously lived openly with his mistress, Emma, and her husband, Sir William Hamilton, as did the Duke of Devonshire, his duchess, Georgina, and Lady Elizabeth Foster.

Artists, of course, were noted for menages.

Shelley and his wife made their home more intimate, sharing it with his wife's stepsister, Claire Clairmont.

The opposition Whigs endeavoured to form a cabinet after Newcastle's fall.

The Duke of Devonshire became Prime Minister, and Pitt one of the Secretaries of State.

The latter's influence was practically supreme, and energetic measures followed his assumption of office.

But he was unable to save the unfortunate Byng, who was hastily tried and condemned to death for failing to relieve Minorca, a victim to popular clamour rather than justice, for he had failed from incompetence, not from treachery.

In England itself great discontent prevailed, and the act organizing a national militia provoked riots in various parts of the country districts.

Before many months were over Pitt's influence made itself felt.

I am sure, he had once said to the Duke of Devonshire, that I can save the country and that no one else can.

He determined to support Frederick the Great with money and some troops while he concentrated the resources and energies of England on expelling the French from America and on securing the supremacy of the sea.