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Page 32 - Charles Cotton was a gentleman born to a competent fortune, and so qualified in his person and education, that for many years he continued the greatest ornament of the town, in the esteem of those who had been best bred. His natural parts were very great, his wit flowing in all the parts of conversation : the superstructure of learning not raised to a considerable height; but having passed some years in Cambridge, and then in France, and conversing always with learned men, his expressions...
Page 31 - was a person whom no character can flatter, or transmit in any expressions equal to his merit and virtue. He was of so stupendous...
Page 37 - He was a person of a pleasant and facetious wit, and made many poems, especially in the amorous way, which, for the sharpness of the fancy, and the elegancy of the language in which that fancy was spread, were at least equal, if not superior, to any of that time...
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Page 354 - He had been most strict and severe in chastising all irregularities. " insomuch," says Clarendon, " that sure there was never any such body of men, so without rapine, swearing, drinking, or any other debauchery — but the wickedness of their hearts.
Page 445 - They found the utter extirpation of the nation (which they had intended) to be in itself very difficult, and to carry in it somewhat of horror, that made some impression upon the stone-hardness of their own hearts.
Page 156 - King would yield and consent to what they desire ; so that my conscience is only concerned in honour and gratitude to follow my master. I have eaten his bread and served him near thirty years, and will not do so base a thing as to forsake him ; and choose rather to lose my Life (which I am sure I shall do) to preserve and defend those things, which are against my conscience to preserve and defend.
Page 41 - ... applications to his father for his pardon, that could be made ; and, for the prejudice he had brought upon his fortune by bringing no portion to him...
Page 54 - He was amongst the few excellent men who never had, nor ever could have an enemy, but such a one who was an enemy to all learning and virtue, and therefore would never make himself known.
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| Title | The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon: In which is Included a Continuation of His History of the Grand Rebellion Volume 1 of The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon ...: In which is Included a Continuation of His History of the Grand Rebellion, Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon |
| Author | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1827 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jun 20, 2007 |
| Length | 1364 pages |
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