 | 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,... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1793 - 268 pages
...by the people in general of the three nations as any of his predecessors had ever been. To conclude, he was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the...he lived produced. And if he were not the greatest king, if he were without some parts and qualities which have made some kings great and happy, no other... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1805 - 340 pages
...Nocte tegi propria patiamur crimina gentis. Lord Clarendon concludes his character in these words: " He was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the...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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 454 pages
...juxta-position, if its length were not an impediment. The conclusion, however, shall be given. King Charles " was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the...he lived produced: and if he were not the greatest king, if he were without some parts and qualities which have made some kings great and happy; no other... | |
 | Louis Dutens - 1806 - 302 pages
...to severe councils, how " reasonable soever urged " To conclude, he was the worthiest gentle" man, the best master, the best friend, " the best husband,...lived produced: And if he were not *' the greatest King, if he were without " some parts and qualities, which have " made some Kings great and happy,... | |
 | Louis Dutens - Europe - 1806 - 304 pages
...severe councils, how •" reasonable soever urged " To conclude, he was the worthiest gentle" man, the best master, the best friend, " the best husband,...lived produced: And if he were not " the greatest King, if he were without " some parts and qualities, which have " made some Kings great and happy,... | |
 | 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
...education — his son was one by principle ; Charles the First was, as Lord Clarendon describes him, ' the worthiest gentleman, the best master, 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
...propria patiamur crimina gentis. Lord Clarendon concludes his character in these words : " He was "? tile worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend,...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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...modest, chaste, temperate, religious, personally brave, and we may join the noble historian in saying, ' He was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best friend, the best hushand, thr best father, and the best Christian of the age in which he lived.' He had the misfortune... | |
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And if he were not the greatest king, if he were without some parts and qualities which have made some kings great and happy, no other prince was ever unhappy who was possessed of half his virtues and endowments, and so much without any kind of vice. 
