 | Sir Richard Steele - Great Britain - 1714 - 444 pages
...Gentleman, the beft Mafter, the beft Friend, the beft Husband, the beft Father, and the beft Chriftian that the Age in which he lived produced : And if he were not the greateft King, if he were without fome Parts and Qualities which have made fome Kings great and happy,... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1805 - 340 pages
...crimina gentis. Lord Clarendon concludes his character in these words: " He was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend, the best husband, the best father, and the best christfan, that the age he lived in produced," — Clarendon's History, vol. iii, p. 199, This eminent... | |
 | Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.) - 1807 - 588 pages
...gentleman, the beft mafter, the beft friend, the beft hufband, the beft father, and the beft Chriftian, that the age in which he lived produced. And if he were not the greateft king, if he were without fome parts and qualities which have made fome kings great and happy,... | |
 | 1811 - 710 pages
...one by principle ; Charles the First was, as Lord Clarendon describes him, ' the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend, the best husband, the best father, and the best Christian, of the age in which be lived.' Charles the Second was a compound of all the vices that debase a human... | |
 | Henry Kett - Best books - 1812 - 500 pages
...gentis. Lord Clarendon concludes his character in these words : " He was "? tile worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend, the best husband,...best father, and the best Christian, that the age he lived in pixxluccd," — Clarendon's History, vol. iii, p. 199. This eminent wri- ,, ter is supposed... | |
 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...character, he was amiable and exemplary. " He was," says lord Clarendon, " the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend, the best husband, the best father, and the best Christian of the age in which he lived." All his faults seem to have arisen from the error of his education ;... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 510 pages
...believe his friends, he was adorned with many amiable qualities, &c.] " He was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend, the best husband,...Christian, that the age in which he lived produced b." And according to Perinchief, he "was religious, just, and clement; possessed of fortitude, patience,... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 518 pages
...believe his friends, he was adorned with many amiable qualities, &c.] " He was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend, the best husband,...the best Christian, that the age in which he lived producedb." And according to Perinchief, he " was religious, just, and clement; possessed of fortitude,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...affection to their prince. Thus died (to use the Earl of Clarendon's words) " The worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend, the best husband,...Christian, that the age in which he lived produced." '—(See Dr. Nicholls's Comment on the Book of Common Prayer, fol. I?l0; Form of Prayer for 30th of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1821 - 688 pages
...— as any of his predecessors had ever been. To conclude : — that he was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend, the best husband,...Christian that the age in which he lived produced: and that if he was not the greatest king,—if he were without some parts and qualities which have made... | |
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To conclude, he was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend, the best husband, the best father, and the best Christian, that the age in which he lived produced. 
