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... Nature had largely endowed William with the qualities of * The chief materials from which I have taken my description of the Prince of Orange will be found in Burnet's His- tory , in Temple's and Gourville's Me- moirs , in the ...
... Nature had largely endowed William with the qualities of * The chief materials from which I have taken my description of the Prince of Orange will be found in Burnet's His- tory , in Temple's and Gourville's Me- moirs , in the ...
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... natural sense , and rare His early force of will , he found himself , when first his mind began to education . open , a fatherless and motherless child , the chief of a great but depressed and disheartened party , and the heir to vast ...
... natural sense , and rare His early force of will , he found himself , when first his mind began to education . open , a fatherless and motherless child , the chief of a great but depressed and disheartened party , and the heir to vast ...
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... natural rhetoric , quaint , indeed , but vigorous , and original . He did not , however , in the least affect the character of a wit or of an orator . His attention had been confined to those studies which form strenuous and sagacious ...
... natural rhetoric , quaint , indeed , but vigorous , and original . He did not , however , in the least affect the character of a wit or of an orator . His attention had been confined to those studies which form strenuous and sagacious ...
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... natural delicacy . At length a complete explanation and reconciliation were brought about by the agency of Gilbert Burnet . CHAP . VII . The fame of Burnet has been attacked with singular malice Gilbert and pertinacity . The attack ...
... natural delicacy . At length a complete explanation and reconciliation were brought about by the agency of Gilbert Burnet . CHAP . VII . The fame of Burnet has been attacked with singular malice Gilbert and pertinacity . The attack ...
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... nature was kind , generous , grateful , forgiving . †His re- Speaker Onslow's note on Burnet , i . 596 .; Johnson's Life of Sprat . No person has contradicted Burnet more frequently or with more asperity than Dartmouth . Yet Dartmouth ...
... nature was kind , generous , grateful , forgiving . †His re- Speaker Onslow's note on Burnet , i . 596 .; Johnson's Life of Sprat . No person has contradicted Burnet more frequently or with more asperity than Dartmouth . Yet Dartmouth ...
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