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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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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 by such speculations.

Gilbert Burnet

.. for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.

Gilbert Burnet

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.

Gilbert Burnet

The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.

Gilbert Burnet

Gilbert Burnet

Gilbert Burnet

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Born: September 18, 1643

Died: March 17, 1715 (aged 71)

Bio: Gilbert Burnet was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was highly respected as a cleric, a preacher, an academic, a writer and a historian.

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