"The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a……" — Gilbert Burnet
"The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true: the King (he said) could see things if he would, and the Duke would see things if he could."
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6 Quotes by Gilbert Burnet
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...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some…
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The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.
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Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
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