There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities, in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst. — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory. — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
