The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was … - Gilbert Burnet

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She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

Gilbert Burnet

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.

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. . . 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.

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An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion. " To the inquiry of "What religion?" the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it. "

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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.

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The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

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. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.

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