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Page 474 - The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.
Page 20 - We do also resolve to protect and preserve the government of the Church of Scotland, as it is settled by law...
Page xxxvi - History of his own Times ' is very entertaining. The style, indeed, is mere chit-chat. I do not believe that Burnet intentionally lied; but he was so much prejudiced, that he took no pains to find out the truth. He was like a man who resolves to regulate his time by a certain watch; but will not inquire whether the watch is right or not.
Page xlv - I never found a disposition to superstition in my temper ; I was rather inclined to be philosophical upon all occasions. Yet I must confess, that this strange ordering of the winds and seasons, just to change as our affairs required it, could not but make deep impressions on me, as well as on all that observed it.
Page 344 - I waited often on him, and was ordered, both by the king and the archbishop and bishops, to attend upon him, and to offer him such informations of our religion and constitution as he was willing to receive. I had good interpreters, so I had much free discourse with him. He is a man of a very hot temper, soon inflamed, and very brutal in his passion. He raises his natural heat by drinking much brandy, which he rectifies himself with great application; he is subject to convulsive motions all over his...
Page 11 - ... the preservation of the reformed religion in the church of Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Page 228 - A portly prince, and goodly to the sight, He seemed a son of Anak for his height: Like those whom stature did to crowns prefer; Black-browed and bluff, like Homer's Jupiter; Broad-backed and brawny built for love's delight, 1145 A prophet formed to make a female proselyte.
Page xlii - He made a very ill appearance: he was very big: his hair red, hanging oddly about him: his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to: and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court.
Page 124 - He bore it all very well and thanked me for it. Some things he freely condemned, such as living with another man's wife; other things he excused, and thought God would not damn a man for a little irregular pleasure. He seemed to take all I had said very kindly, and during my stay at Court he used me in so particular a manner that I was considered as a man growing into a high degree of favour.
Page 42 - He was haughty beyond expression ; abject to those he saw he must stoop to, but imperious to all others. He had a violence of passion that carried him often to fits like madness, in which he had no temper. If he took a thing wrong, it was a vain thing to study to...