 | Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Stackhouse - 1906 - 440 페이지
...things, and raised himself many enemies by a contemptuous treatment of those who differed from him. His own notions were always good, but he was a man of great expense, and, in order to support that, he went into the prevailing counsels at Court, and changed sides often, with little or... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Stackhouse - 1906 - 436 페이지
...things, and raised himself many enemies by a contemptuous treatment of those who differed from him. His own notions were always good, but he was a man of great expense, and, in order to support that, he went into the prevailing counsels at Court, and changed sides often, with little or... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 페이지
...crowded into periods of no uncommon length. The following quotations will illustrate this observation. His own notions were always good ; but he was a man of great expence. — Burnet' s Hist, of his own Time. I single him out among the moderns, because he had the... | |
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was a man of a clear and ready apprehension, and a quick decision in business. He had too much heat, both of imagination and passion, and was apt to speak very freely both of persons and things. 
