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The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true: the King (he said) could see things if he would, and the Duke would see things if he could (Gilbert Burnet Quotes)
One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies, fell all at once, and his whole strength, like a spider’s web, was... irrecoverably broken at a touch. (Gilbert Burnet Quotes)
One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies, fell all at once, and his whole strength, like a spider’s web, was... irrecoverably broken at a touch (Gilbert Burnet Quotes)
... learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one’s thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations (Gilbert Burnet Quotes)
... Was apt to suffer things to run on till there was a great heap of papers laid before him, so then he signed them a little too precipitately (Gilbert Burnet Quotes)
... For the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst (Gilbert Burnet Quotes)