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Gilbert Burnet
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. . . it a great error to waste young gentlemen's years so long in learning Latin by so tedious a...
The Duke of...
The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because...
One of the...
One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great...
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. . . was apt to suffer things to run on till there was a great heap of papers laid before him, so then he signed them...
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. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went...