| Gilbert Burnet - 1753 - 496 pages
...id ferved in France, where he had got into i degree of favour with Cardinal Richelieu, that verfally beloved and efteemed by men of all fides and forts,...the midft of armies and courts he fpent many hours aday in devotion. He had gone thro' the eafy parts of mathematicks, and knew the hiftory of nature,... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - 1823 - 644 pages
...Hamilton's memoirs: he was the most universally beloved and esteemed by men of all sides and sorts, of any man I have ever known in my whole life. He was a pious man, and in the midst of armies and courts he spent many hours a day in devotion, [which was in a most elevating strain.]... | |
| Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 pages
...Sir Uobert Murray, ' was the most universally beloved and esteemed, by men of all sides and sorts, of any man I have ever known in my whole life. He was a pious man ; and, in the midst of armies and courts, he spent many hours a day in devotion. He had gone through the easy part... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1840 - 508 pages
...1673. Burnet says, 'He was the most universally beloved and esteemed, by men of all sides and sorts, of any man I have ever known in my whole life. He was a pious man, and in the midst of armies and courts spent many hours a day in devotion, which was in a most elevating strain.... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 540 pages
...He was," says the bishop, " the most universally beloved and esteemed by men of all sides and sorts of any man I have ever known in my whole life. He was a • Birch, i. 3. pious man, and in the midst of armies and courts he spent many hours a day in devotion,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1870 - 734 pages
...Sir Robert Murray. " He was tlie most universally beloved and esteemed by men of all sides and sorts of any man I have ever known in my whole life. He was a pious man, and, in the midst of armies and courts, he spent many hours a-day in devotion, which was in a most elevating strain.... | |
| John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson - 1896 - 244 pages
...says of him :— lie was the most universally beloved and esteemed by mett of all sides aitti sctrts of any man I have ever known in my whole life. He was a pious man, and, in the itiid¿t of arsssies and courts, he spent many hours a (lay in devotion which was in the most elevating... | |
| 1894 - 710 pages
...Burnet says of him :— lie was the most universally beloved and esteemed by men of all sides and sorts of any man I have ever Known in my whole life. He was a pious man, and, in the midst of armies and courts, he spent many hours a day in devotion which was in the most elevating strain.... | |
| David Stevenson - 1990 - 272 pages
...simple and natural'. He was 'the most universally beloved and esteemed by men of all sides and sorts, of any man I have ever known in my whole life'. 'He had a most diffused love to all mankind, and he delighted in every occasion of doing good, which he... | |
| Robert Moray - 2007 - 342 pages
...equally positive: ... he was the most universally and beloved and esteemed by men of all sides and sorts, of any man I have ever known in my whole life. He was a pious man, and in the midst of armies and courts he spent many hours a day in a devotion which was of a most elevating strain.... | |
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