The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart: Sequel of the author's letters, serving to supply the loss of the first part of his memoirs. A survey of the constitutions and interests of the Empire, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Holland, France, and Flanders in 1671. A letter to the Duke of Ormond, written in October 1673. Memoirs, pt. II-III. Appendix to the Memoirs, pt. IIIF.C. and J. Rivington, 1814 |
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Page 424 - Well, I never yet was deceived in judging of a man's honesty by his looks (of which he gave me some examples), and if I am not deceived in the Prince's face, he is the honestest man in the world, and I will trust him, and he shall have his wife, and you shall go immediately and tell my brother so, and that it is a thing I am resolved on.
Page 497 - Upon three days thought of this whole affair, I concluded it a scene unfit for such actors as I knew myself to be ; and resolved to avoid the Secretary's place, or any other public employment at home, my character abroad still continuing.
Page 507 - Temple, referring to the same subject, adds, " And this person having the name of the greatest lawyer in England, and commonly, of a very wise man ; besides this, of a very rich, and of a wary or rather timorous nature, made people generally conclude, that the thing was certain and safe, and would at last be agreed on all parts, whatever countenance were made at court.
Page 276 - I had a mind to know from Prince Maurice's own mouth, the account of a common, but much credited, story, that I had heard so often from many others, of an old parrot he had in Brazil, during his government there, that spoke, and asked, and answered, common questions, like a reasonable creature; so that those of his train there generally concluded it to be witchery or possession...
Page 585 - Upon the survey of all these circumstances, conjunctures, and dispositions, at home and abroad, I concluded in cold blood that I could be of no further use or service to the King my master and my country, whose true interests, I always thought, were the same, and would be both in danger when they came to be divided, and for that reason had ever endeavoured the uniting them ; and had compassed it, if the passions of some few men had not lain fatally in the way, so as to raise difficulties that I saw...
Page 276 - ... in Holland, would never, from that time, endure a parrot, but said, they all had a devil in them. I had heard many particulars of...
Page 240 - ... where he gets as easy a seat as he can, entertains himself with what passes upon the stage, not caring who the actors are, or what the plot, nor whether he goes out before the play be done.
Page 403 - ... they have, and another of unquiet men, who desire to acquire what they have not, and by violent, if they cannot by lawful, means. Therefore I never could find a better way of judging the resolutions of a State than by the personal temper and understanding, or passions and humours, of the princes or chief ministers that were for the time at the head of affairs.
Page 450 - Cios was gained, or by whom, I will not pretend to determine,- but upon my next return for England, the Duke told me, That He knew nothing of it, till it was gone, having been a Hunting that morning; My Lord...
Page 538 - ... he hath nothing to do but to be quiet. He told me how my Lady of Essex had writ to him, 1 " I was now in a posture to be admirably pleased with having no part in public affairs. The Duke unsatisfied with me of late ; the Duke of Monmouth and Lord Shaftesbury from the first ; Lord Essex and Halifax out of all commerce with me upon what had passed ; great civility from the other ministers, but no communication ; and the King himself, though very gracious, yet very reserved. Upon all this and the...