Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: With the Suppressed Passages of the First Volume, and Notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, and Speaker Onslow, Hitherto Unpublished, to which are Added the Cursory Remarks of Swift. And Other Observations, Volume 5Clarendon Press, 1823 |
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Page 82 - ... was in all points so exact, that there was not a circumstance in his whole deportment that was liable to censure ; he paid an extraordinary respect to the queen, and yet maintained a due greatness in it ; he had an art of seeming well pleased with every thing, without so much as smiling once all the while he was at court, which was only three days ; he spoke but little, and all he said was judicious and obliging.
Page 298 - She likewise granted a commission for a new privy council in that kingdom, to be in force till the next session of parliament, that the nation might not be disgusted by too sudden an alteration of outward appearances. The first of May was appointed as a day of public thanksgiving; and congratulatory addresses were sent up from all parts of England ; but the university of Oxford prepared no compliment ; and the Scots were wholly silent on this occasion.
Page 19 - ... for furnishing the clergy that were sent thither, and for sending missionaries among such of our plantations, as were not able to provide pastors for themselves. It was a glorious conclusion of a reign, that was begun with preserving our religion, thus to create a corporation, for propagating it to the remoter parts of the earth, and among infidels: there were very liberal subscriptions made to it, by many of the bishops and clergy, who set about it with great care and zeal. Upon the queen's...
Page 107 - I was resolved never to be silent, when that should be brought into debate ; for I have long looked on liberty of conscience as one of the rights of human nature, antecedent to society, which no man could give up, because it was not in his own power...
Page 67 - ... archbishop of Canterbury and his suffragans, that the matters in dispute concerning the manner of synodical proceedings, and the right of the lower house to hold intermediate assemblies, might be taken into consideration, and speedily determined. The bishops proposed, that in the intervals of sessions, the lower house might appoint committees to prepare matters ; and when business should be brought regularly before them, the archbishop...
Page 50 - ... hold any other employment, till after one whole year's conformity to the church, which was to be proved at the Quarter Session; upon a relapse, the penalty and the time of incapacity were doubled: no limitation of time was put in the bill, nor of the way in which the offence was to be proved; but whereas the act of the Test only included the magistrates in corporations, all the inferior officers or freemen in corporations who were found to have some interest in the elections, were now comprehended...
Page 24 - While Britain was engaged in these civil transactions, her allies were not idle on the continent. The old duke of Zell, and his nephew, the elector of Brunswick, surprised the dukes of...
Page 382 - He was unhappily prevailed with to take on him the post of high admiral, of which he understood little ; but was fatally led by those who had credit with him, who had not all of them his good qualities, but had both an ill temper and bad principles. His being bred to the sea gained him some credit in those matters. In the conduct of our affairs, as great errors were committed, so great misfortunes had followed on them ; all these were imputed to the prince's easiness, and to his favourites' ill management...
Page 444 - ... death, as it would darken all the glory of her reign, so it must set all her people to consider of the most proper ways of securing themselves, by bringing over the protestant successors ; in which, I told her plainly, I would concur, if she did not take effectual means to extinguish those jealousies. I told her, her ministers had served her with that fidelity, and such success, that her making a change among them would amaze all the world. The glory of queen Elizabeth's reign arose from the...
Page 401 - Chester f spoke as zealously against it, for he seemed resolved to distinguish himself as a zealot for that which was called high church.