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PHILOSOPHY > theologian, religious leader > Gilbert Burnet
One of the...
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One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies, fell all at once, and his whole strength, like a spider's web, was . . . irrecoverably broken at a touch.
Source: Referring to the Glorious Revolution, 1688 in History of My Own Times.
-- Gilbert Burnet, (Sep 8 1643-1715), Scottish theologian, religious leader; He was an influential bishop who offered confidential advise to William and Mary; wrote History of His Time, 1734.