 | 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
...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... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...countenance. In his private character, he was amiable and exemplary. " He was," says lord Clarendon, " the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best...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
...largely in note 20. 13 If we believe his friends, he was adorned with many amiable qualities, &c.] " He was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the...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
...largely in note 20. " If we believe his friends, he was adorned with many amiable qualities, &c.] " He was the worthiest gentleman, the best master, the...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
...little tender of their affection to their prince. Thus died (to use the Earl of Clarendon's words) " The worthiest gentleman, the best master, the best...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... | |
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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. 
