 | Bibliography - 1734 - 488 pages
...over him, when the Concerns of the fl Church ftood in the Way.- In a word, if ic " had not been for Popery, he would have been, " if not a great, yet a good Prince." Soon after King James's Deceafe, the pretended Prince of Wales was own'd and proclaim'd King in Ftyyce.... | |
 | Nicolas Tindal - Great Britain - 1763 - 638 pages
...wandering from one amour Will.IIL, to another, yet he had a real fenfeof fin, and was a(hamed of 1701. it: But priefts know how to engage princes more intirely...great, yet a good prince. Burnet fays, that by what he once knew of him, and by what he faw him afterwards carried to> he grew more confirmed in the very... | |
 | Rapin de Thoyras (M., Paul) - Great Britain - 1763 - 642 pages
...wandering from one amour Will. III. to another, yet he had a real fenfe of fin, and was afhamed of 1701. it: But priefts know how to engage princes more intirely...great, yet a good prince. Burnet fays, that by what he once knew of him, and by what he faw him afterwards carried to, he grew more confirmed in the very... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 576 pages
...know how to engage princes more entirely into their interests, by making them compound for their sins, by a great zeal for holy church, as they call it....would have been, if not a great, yet a good prince. By what I once knew of him, and by what I saw him afterwards carried to, I grew more confirmed in the... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 576 pages
...know how to engage princes more entirely into their interests, by making them compound for their sins, by a great zeal for holy church, as they call it....would have been, if not a great, yet a good prince. By what I once knew of him, and by what I saw him afterwards carried to, I grew more confirmed in the... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 596 pages
..." and an immoveable observer lately published by Mr. Lodge, "of his word and promise." 540 } 70 1 . zeal for holy church, as they call it. In a word,...would have been, if not a great, yet a good prince. By what I once knew of him, and by what I saw him afterwards carried to, I grew more confirmed in the... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 568 pages
...he was still wandering from one amour to another; yet he had a real sense of sin, and was ashamed of it. ... In a word, if it had not been for his popery,...would have been, if not a great, yet a good prince." To resume our narrative. At two o'clock on the day of the king's departure from the capital, the prince... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World history - 1904 - 710 pages
...he was still wandering from one amour to another; yet he had a real sense of sin, and was ashamed of it. In a word, if it had not been for his popery,...would have been, if not a great, yet a good prince." THE INTERREGNUM; THE CONVENTION PARLIAMENT (1689 AD) To resume our narrative. At two o'clock on the... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - Great Britain - 1918 - 398 pages
...know how to engage Princes more entirely into their interests, by making them compound for their Sins, by a great zeal for Holy Church, as they call it....would have been, if not a great yet a good Prince. By 2025.1 s what I once knew of him, and by what I saw him afterwards carried to, I grew more confirmed... | |
 | Angus Stroud - History - 1999 - 246 pages
...laid it down for a maxim, that all who opposed the King were rebels in their hearts. . . . [Even so] if it had not been for his popery he would have been, if not a great, yet a good prince. (Bishop Burnet, 1690s) B King James was certainly a far better man than his brother, although of a... | |
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In a word, if it had not been for his popery he would have been, if not a great, yet a good prince. 
