Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: With the Suppressed Passages of the First Volume, and Notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, and Speaker Onslow, Hitherto Unpublished, to which are Added the Cursory Remarks of Swift. And Other Observations, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1823 - Great Britain |
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Page xxviii
... occasion to mention ; the other Index to the principal contents of the notes was entirely prepared by the same gentleman . The author finished his history of the reigns of Charles II . and James II . about the beginning of the ...
... occasion to mention ; the other Index to the principal contents of the notes was entirely prepared by the same gentleman . The author finished his history of the reigns of Charles II . and James II . about the beginning of the ...
Page xxix
... occasions the reign of Charles the first , in which the contest for political power commenced , to form the most interesting period of English history , whether we are disposed to triumph with the conquering party , or to espouse and ...
... occasions the reign of Charles the first , in which the contest for political power commenced , to form the most interesting period of English history , whether we are disposed to triumph with the conquering party , or to espouse and ...
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... occasions employed by them , that I have been able to penetrate far into the true secrets of counsels and designs . This made me twenty years ago write down a re- lation of all that I had known to that time : where I was in the dark , I ...
... occasions employed by them , that I have been able to penetrate far into the true secrets of counsels and designs . This made me twenty years ago write down a re- lation of all that I had known to that time : where I was in the dark , I ...
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... occasions , as fully and freely as upon my best inquiry I have been able to find it out . Where things appear doubtful , I deliver them with the same incertainty to the world . Some may perhaps think , that , instead of favouring my own ...
... occasions , as fully and freely as upon my best inquiry I have been able to find it out . Where things appear doubtful , I deliver them with the same incertainty to the world . Some may perhaps think , that , instead of favouring my own ...
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... occasion for this apo- logy . с I have shewed this history to several of my friends , who were either very partial to me , or with a most invincible assur- ance . DARTMOUTH . I will take his warning . SWIFT . d He offered to shew it to ...
... occasion for this apo- logy . с I have shewed this history to several of my friends , who were either very partial to me , or with a most invincible assur- ance . DARTMOUTH . I will take his warning . SWIFT . d He offered to shew it to ...
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Page 508 - We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in matters of religion ; upon all these topics they had texts of Scripture at hand ; and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was spread even among the meanest of them, their cottagers and their servants.
Page 322 - ... studied to raise those who conversed with him to a nobler set of thoughts, and to consider religion as a seed of a deiform nature (to use one of his own phrases). In order to this, he set young students much on reading the ancient philosophers, chiefly Plato, Tully, and Plotin, and on considering the Christian religion as a doctrine sent from God, both to elevate and sweeten human nature, in which he was a great example, as well as a wise and kind instructor.
Page 55 - If he must die, it were charity to reprieve him till Saturday.
Page 466 - ... and he was endless in consultations ; for when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest to make even that which was suggested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of his wit, though it made others call his judgment in question.
Page 160 - She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous; foolish but imperious, very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him.
Page 174 - He was very learned, not only in Latin, in which he was a master, but in Greek and Hebrew. He had read a great deal of divinity, and almost all the historians ancient and modern : so that he had great materials. He had with these an extraordinary memory, and a copious but unpolished expression. He was a man, as the duke of Buckingham called him to me, of a blundering understanding [not always clear, but often cloudy, as his looks were always.
Page 74 - The southwest counties of Scotland have seldom corn enough to serve them round the year : and the northern parts producing more than they need, those in the west come in the summer to buy at Leith the stores that come from the north ; and, from a word, wliiggam, used in driving their horses, all that drove were called whiggmnores, and shorter, whiggs.
Page 412 - Farewell, sun, moon, and stars ; farewell, world and time ; farewell, weak and frail body : welcome, eternity ; welcome, angels and saints ; welcome, Saviour of the world ; and welcome, God, the judge of all...
Page 172 - He could never fix his thoughts, nor govern his estate, tho* then the greatest in England. He was bred about the King : And for many years he had a great ascendent over him : But he spake of him to all persons with that contempt, that at last he drew a lasting disgrace upon himself. And he at length ruined both body and mind, fortune and reputation equally.
Page 324 - They loved the constitution of the Church, and the Liturgy, and could well live under them : But they did not think it unlawful to live under another form. They wished that things might have been carried with more moderation. And they continued to keep a good correspondence with those who had differed from them in opinion, and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and divinity: From whence they were called men of Latitude.