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Passages of the First Volume, and Notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, and Speaker Onslow, Hitherto Unpublished, Volume 1 |
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... Soon after , on an application to the earl of Onslow , made through the late James Bos- well , esquire , of the Inner Temple , his lord- ship was pleased to confide to the delegates speaker Onslow's copy of Burnet's history ; in which ...
... Soon after , on an application to the earl of Onslow , made through the late James Bos- well , esquire , of the Inner Temple , his lord- ship was pleased to confide to the delegates speaker Onslow's copy of Burnet's history ; in which ...
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... soon as the second volume shall be pub- " lished . " 66 Suspicions had very early arisen , nay , po- sitive testimony had been adduced , that many passages of the original work were omitted by the editors xvi PREFACE TO THIS EDITION .
... soon as the second volume shall be pub- " lished . " 66 Suspicions had very early arisen , nay , po- sitive testimony had been adduced , that many passages of the original work were omitted by the editors xvi PREFACE TO THIS EDITION .
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... soon after the revolution , a so- lemn recognition was made of the liberties of Englishmen ; the power of dispensing with the laws was abrogated in all cases ; the judges were no longer dismissible at the sole pleasure of the crown ; a ...
... soon after the revolution , a so- lemn recognition was made of the liberties of Englishmen ; the power of dispensing with the laws was abrogated in all cases ; the judges were no longer dismissible at the sole pleasure of the crown ; a ...
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... soon after , so that Henry the fourth came in his room , king James was no more in a French management : so presently after he married a daughter of Denmark , and ever after that he was wholly managed by queen Elizabeth and her ...
... soon after , so that Henry the fourth came in his room , king James was no more in a French management : so presently after he married a daughter of Denmark , and ever after that he was wholly managed by queen Elizabeth and her ...
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... soon lost , by his engaging the whole government to support that which was then very contrary to the bent and genius of the nation . But though he set up bishops , he had no revenues episcopacy in Scotland . to give them , but what he ...
... soon lost , by his engaging the whole government to support that which was then very contrary to the bent and genius of the nation . But though he set up bishops , he had no revenues episcopacy in Scotland . to give them , but what he ...
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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 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 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 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.
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 228 - Hebrew, and of the whole compass of theological learning, chiefly in the study of the Scriptures. But that which excelled all the rest was, he was possessed with the highest and noblest sense of divine things that I ever saw in any man.