8 ordspråk av Gilbert Burnet
Gilbert Burnet
 . . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst. |
| . . . it a great error to waste young gentlemen's years so long in learning Latin by so tedious a grammar. |
| . . . was apt to suffer things to run on till there was a great heap of papers laid before him, so then he signed them a little too precipitately. |
| He [Halifax] had said that he had known many kicked downstairs, but he never knew any kicked upstairs before. |
| 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. |
| That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone |
| That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone |
| 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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