Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, Volume 4University Press, 1833 |
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Page 562 - ... spoke little and very slowly, and most commonly with a disgusting dryness, which was his character at all times, except in a day of battle ; for then he was all fire, though without passion ; he was then everywhere, and looked to everything. He had no great advantage from his education. De...
Page 408 - He was desirous to understand our doctrine, but he did not seem disposed to mend matters in Muscovy ; he was, indeed, resolved to encourage learning and to polish his people by sending some of them to travel in other countries, and to draw strangers to come and live among them.
Page 563 - This, in a government that has so much of freedom in it as ours, was more necessary than he was inclined to believe. His reservedness grew on him ; so that it disgusted most of those who served him. But he had observed the errors of too much talking more than those of too cold a silence.
Page 76 - The Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir John Trevor, was a bold and dexterous man, and knew the most effectual ways of recommending himself to every government; he had been in great favour in King James's time, and was made Master of the Rolls by him, and if Lord...
Page 242 - ... he was not only the best preacher of the age, but seemed to have brought preaching to perfection ; his sermons were so well heard and liked, and so much read, that all the nation proposed him as a pattern, and studied to copy after him...
Page 521 - I know of, and the clergy have been constantly from that time charged with the laity in all public aids to the crown by the house of commons. In consequence of this (but from what period I cannot say), without the intervention of any particular law for it, except what I shall mention presently, the clergy ( who are not lords of parliament) have assumed, and without any objection enjoyed, the privilege of voting in the election of members of the house of commons, in virtue of their ecclesiastical...
Page 193 - He was very learned in his own profession, with a great deal more learning in other professions, in divinity, philosophy, and history. He had a great capacity for business, with an extraordinary temper; for he was fair and gentle, perhaps to a fault, considering his post; so that he had all the patience and softness, as well as the justice and equity, becoming a great magistrate.
Page 565 - Dutch, and was much beloved among them ; but the ill returns he met from the English nation, their jealousies of him, and their perverseness towards him, had too much soured his mind, and had in a great measure alienated him from them, which he did not take care enough to conceal, though he saw the ill effects this had upon his business. He grew, in his last years, too remiss and careless as to all affairs ; till the treacheries of France awakened him, and the dreadful conjunction of the monarchies...
Page 500 - ... many weeks; at every time that it was called for, the motion was entertained with coldness, which served to heighten the jealousy : the committee once or twice sat upon it, but all the members ran out of the house with so much indecency, that the contrivers seemed ashamed of this management k : there were seldom fifty or sixty at the committee; yet in conclusion, it passed, and was sent up to the lords...
Page 248 - ... she avoided giving herself or him the tenderness, which a final parting might have raised in them both. She was almost perpetually iu prayer. The day before she died, she received the sacrament, all the bishops who were attending being admitted to receive it with her: we were, God knows, a sorrowful company; for we were losing her who was our chief hope and glory on earth...