 | Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe - 1907 - 766 pages
...in the observation of his word and promise as a commander that he could not be persuaded to remain in the West when he found it not in his power to perform the agreement he had made with Dorchester and Weymouth. If he had lived he would have proved a great ornament to... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1839 - 574 pages
...he put off with severity, when others thought them excusable under the notion of a soldier. He was a great lover of justice, and practised it then most...found it not in his power to perform the agreement he had made with Dorchester and Wey mouth. If he had lived, he would have proved a great ornament to... | |
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Those infirmities, and that license, which he had formerly indulged to himself, he put off with severity, when others thought them excusable under the notion of a soldier. He was a great lover of justice, and practised it then most deliberately, when... 
