| Robert Gibbs - 1888 - Počet stránok 442
...Bishop Burnet said " Godolphin had a clear apprehension, and despatched business with great method, and with so much temper, that he had no personal enemies;...silence begot a jealousy, which has hung long upon him ; bis notions were for the Court, but his incorrupt and sincere way of managing the concerns of the... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - 1900 - Počet stránok 554
...perhaps ever bred in a court. He had a clear apprehension, and despatched business with great method, and with so much temper that he had no personal enemies...jealousy, which has hung long upon him. His notions were high for the court : but his incorrupt and sincere way of managing the concerns of the treasury created... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - 1900 - Počet stránok 562
...perhaps ever bred in a court. He had a clear apprehension, and despatched business with great method, and with so much temper that he had no personal enemies:...jealousy, which has hung long upon him. His notions w1^e high for the court : but his incorrupt and sincere way of N managing the concerns of the treasury... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - Počet stránok 710
...he was the silentest and modestest man who was perhaps ever bred in a court. His notions," he adds, "were for the court, but his incorrupt and sincere...created in all people a very high esteem for him. He had true principles of religion and virtue, and never heaped up wealth. So that all things being laid... | |
| Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Stackhouse - 1906 - Počet stránok 440
...principles of religion and virtue, his behaviour free from pride and vanity, his contempt of wealth, and incorrupt and sincere way of managing the concerns...Treasury, created in all people a very high esteem of him, and entitled him to the confidence of four succeeding princes. There was in this year at midsummer... | |
| Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Stackhouse - 1906 - Počet stránok 436
...principles of religion and virtue, his behaviour free from pride and vanity, his contempt of wealth, and incorrupt and sincere way of managing the concerns...Treasury, created in all people a very high esteem of him, and entitled him to the confidence of four succeeding princes. There was in this year at midsummer... | |
| Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount) - 1923 - Počet stránok 492
...perhaps ever bred in a court. He had a clear apprehension and despatched business with great method, and with so much temper that he had no personal enemies: but his silence begat a jealousy which hung long upon him. His incorrupt and sincere way of managing the concerns of... | |
| George Etherege - 1928 - Počet stránok 484
...on his reappointment to the first Lordship of the Treasury in succession to Rochester. Burnet says ' his incorrupt and sincere way of managing the concerns...created in all people a very high esteem for him' (pp. cit. ii. 113). 1686/7 thoughts on your Lordship to be my patron. The virtues which you enjoy proper... | |
| Paula R. Backscheider - 1989 - Počet stránok 702
...so much temper, that he had no personal enemies ... his incorrupt and sincere way of managing . . . the treasury created in all people a very high esteem for him" (2:239-40). He was, however, reserved, taciturn, and unusually inaccessible. In 1703 Robert Harley... | |
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