 | Richard Warner - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...like his father, a pattern of integrity and honesty; the best speaker, according to Bishop Burnet, in the House of Commons, and capable of bearing the...near it, and deserved it more than all the rest did. He received the honour of knighthood in 1657, and was made one of the commissioners of the treasury... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...one of the commissioners of the treasury on May 24, 1667 ; being, as bishop Burnet relates, " a man of great notions and eminent virtues ; the best speaker...near it, and deserved it more than all the rest did." Yet, as he was too honest to engage in the designs of that reign, and quarrelled with the duke of Buckingham,... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 828
...great notions and eminent virtues: ihe best speaker in the house of commons, and capable of bearing ihe chief ministry, as it was once thought he was very...near it, and deserved it more than all the rest did." However, as he was loo honest to engage in the designs of that reign, and quarrelling with the Duke... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 824
...eminent virtues: the be-t speaker in the house of common", and capable of bearing the chief minisiry, as it was once thought he was very near it, and deserved it more than all the rest did." However, as he was too honest to engage in the designs of that reign, and quarrelling with the Duke... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...one of the commissioners of the treasury on May 24, 1667 ; being, as bishop Burnet relates, " a man of great notions and eminent virtues ; the best speaker...near it, and deserved it more than all the rest did." Yet, as he was too honest to engage in the designs of that reign, and quarrelled with the duke of Buckingham,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...of the sea very particularly. He had a very able secretary about him, sir William Coventry : a man of great notions and eminent virtues, the best speaker...ministry, as it was once thought he was very near it. The duke found all the great seamen had a deep tincture from their education : they both hated popery... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...1667. See Wood's Athene Oxon. vol. ii. p. 601, edit. 1692. He was, as bishop Burnet relates, a man of great notions and eminent virtues, the best speaker...bearing the chief ministry, as it was once thought lie was very near it, and deserved it more than all the rest did." See Collins's Peerage of England,... | |
 | James Granger - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...1667, he was made one of the commissioners of the Treasury. Bishop Burnet observes, that he was " a man of great notions and eminent virtues; the best speaker...near it, and deserved it more than all the rest did." He engaged in a personal dispute with the Duke of Buckingham, which, terminating in a challenge, he... | |
 | James Granger - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 704
...1667, he was made one of the commissioners of the Treasury. Bishop Burnet observes, that he was " a man of great notions and eminent virtues ; the best speaker...near it, and deserved it more than all the rest did." He engaged in a personal dispute with the Duke of Buckingham, •which, terminating in a challenge,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 676
...of the sea very particularly. He had a very able secretary about him, sir William Coventry : a man of great notions and eminent virtues, the best speaker...ministry, as it was once thought he was very near it. The duke found all the great seamen had a deep tincture from their education : they both hated popery... | |
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of great notions and eminent virtues ; the best speaker in the House of Commons, and capable of bearing the chief ministry, as it was once thought he was very near it, and deserved it more than all the rest did. 
