| James Mackenzie - Scotland - 1890 - 672 pages
...was so far from withdrawing," says Bishop Burnet, " that he looked on all the while with an unmoved indifference, and with an attention as if he had been to look on some curious experiment." He was a bigoted Papist, and a drivelling slave of Rome. " He would either convert England," he said,... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1900 - 554 pages
...withdrawing, that he looked on all the while with an unmoved indifference, and with an attention as if it had been to look on some curious experiment. This...as of a man that had no bowels nor humanity in him :'. Lord Perth, observing 1 This was in May, 1684. Foun- by all other authors of the duke's tainhall's... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - Civilization - 1901 - 702 pages
...if he l,ad beer, to loot on tome curioui experiment. This gave a terrible idea of him to all th.it observed it, as of a man that had no bowels nor humanity in him." Burnt ft Hittorg of hi* vu-n Time II, 416, 417. elenden Priester zu brandmarken, die Jahre lang mit... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1903 - 526 pages
...he had been in Scotland, was so far from withdrawing that he looked on all the while with an unmoved indifference and with an attention as if he had been to look on some curious experiment" (Burnet, History of .\fy own Time, \., 416; Dalrymple, Memoirs, i., 69, and Lochhart Papers, i., 600).... | |
| Alfred Plummer - 1907 - 214 pages
...dreadful. But the Duke was so far from withdrawing, that he looked on all the while with an unmoved indifference, and with an attention, as if he had...as of a man that had no bowels nor humanity in him. Lord Perth, observing this, resolved to let him see how well qualified he was to be an Inquisitor General... | |
| Alfred Plummer - Great Britain - 1907 - 216 pages
...dreadful. But the Duke was so far from withdrawing, that he looked on all the while with an unmoved indifference, and with an attention, as if he had...as of a man that had no bowels nor humanity in him. Lord Perth, observing this, resolved to let him see how well qualified he was to be an Inquisitor General... | |
| Henry Fielding - Fiction - 1987 - 568 pages
...Scotland, was so far from withdrawing, that he looked on all the while with an unmoved indifference. . . . This gave a terrible idea of him to all that observed...of a man that had no bowels nor humanity in him.' 1 After the failure of Monmouth's rebellion at Sedgemoor in July 1685 a special commission was issued... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1849 - 564 pages
...Burnet, bitter as he is, is content with saying, that he " looked on all the while with an unmoved indifference, and with an attention as if he had been to look upon some curious experiment," (i. 583.) Mr. Macaulay 's mode of dealing with Wodrow is still more... | |
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