 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1897 - 666 pages
...and for many years he had a great ascendant 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 also ruined both body and mind, fortune and reputation equally. The madness of vice appeared in his... | |
 | George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1902 - 144 pages
...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...all other respects, so that his conversation was as mut-S avoided as ever it had been courted. He found the King, when he came from his travels in the... | |
 | Thomas Longueville - Authors, English - 1902 - 388 pages
...ceases to be agreeable ; 1 In his History of the Reign of Charles II. Burnet wrote of Buckingham: " The madness of vice appeared in his person in very...contemptible and poor, sickly, and sunk in his parts," etc. This is very inconsistent with what St. Evremond states that Burnet said of Buckingham. therefore... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - France - 1903 - 354 pages
...and for many years he had a great ascendant 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 mtnd, fortune and reputation equally. The madness of vice appeared in his person in very eminent instances... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - Great Britain - 1910 - 402 pages
...and for many years he had a great ascendency over him ; but he spake of him to all persons with that contempt, that at last he drew a lasting disgrace...poor, sickly, and sunk in his parts, as well as in all oth<r respects; so that his conversation was as much avoided as ever it had been courted." — History... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - Great Britain - 1910 - 402 pages
...and for many years he had a great ascendency over him ; but he spake of him to all persons with that contempt, that at last he drew a lasting disgrace...poor, sickly, and sunk in his parts, as well as in all oth»r respects ; so that his conversation was as much avoided as ever it had been courted." — History... | |
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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... 
