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Passages of the First Volume, and Notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, and Speaker Onslow, Hitherto Unpublished, Volume 1 |
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... relation of public transactions , in which either the author or his connexions were engaged . It will therefore never lose its importance ; but will continue to furnish materials for other historians , and to be read by those , who wish ...
... relation of public transactions , in which either the author or his connexions were engaged . It will therefore never lose its importance ; but will continue to furnish materials for other historians , and to be read by those , who wish ...
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... relations of those who suffered by the severity of his censure . The editors appear to have consulted their own feelings , in the omission of several traits in the cha- racter given by him of his uncle Warriston . But it must not be ...
... relations of those who suffered by the severity of his censure . The editors appear to have consulted their own feelings , in the omission of several traits in the cha- racter given by him of his uncle Warriston . But it must not be ...
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... relation of the murder of archbishop Sharp , and agrees in substance with that in the edited copy , but much altered in point of expression . The three others contain very severe and acrimonious reflections on the English clergy . Of It ...
... relation of the murder of archbishop Sharp , and agrees in substance with that in the edited copy , but much altered in point of expression . The three others contain very severe and acrimonious reflections on the English clergy . Of It ...
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... relations in the subsequent volume of military and foreign affairs in a general and perfunctory manner , and the diminished influence of the good or ill qua- * lities of individuals on the public events and transactions of xxviii ...
... relations in the subsequent volume of military and foreign affairs in a general and perfunctory manner , and the diminished influence of the good or ill qua- * lities of individuals on the public events and transactions of xxviii ...
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... relation of matters of fact , than the knowing the tempers and principles of the chief actors . b Bishop Burnet was a man of the most extensive know- ledge I ever met with ; had read and seen a great deal , with a prodigious memory ...
... relation of matters of fact , than the knowing the tempers and principles of the chief actors . b Bishop Burnet was a man of the most extensive know- ledge I ever met with ; had read and seen a great deal , with a prodigious memory ...
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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.