 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1753 - 670 pages
...extent in a moft extraordinary manner. Primrofe had the drawing of thefe acts. He often coafefled to me, that he thought he was as one bewitched while he drew them: For, not confidering the ill ufe might be made of them afterwards, he drew them with preambles full of extravagant... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 644 pages
...in a most extraordinary manner. Primerose had the drawing of these acts. He often confessed to me, that he thought he was as one bewitched while he drew...of extravagant rhetoric, reflecting severely on the proo 3 1661. ceedings of the late times, and swelled them up with the highest phrases and fullest clauses... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 642 pages
...drew them with preambles full of extravagant rhetoric, reflecting severely on the pro-r 1661. ceedings of the late times, and swelled them up with the highest...phrases and fullest clauses that he could invent. In the act which asserted the king's power of the militia, the power of arming and levying the subjects... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 676 pages
...in a most extraordinary manner. Primerose had the drawing of these acts. He often confessed to me, that he thought he was as one bewitched while he drew...phrases and fullest clauses that he could invent. In the act which asserted the king's power of the militia, the power of arming and levying the subjects... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1850 - 996 pages
...extent in a mont extraordinary manner. Primrose had the drawing of these acts. He often confessed to me, that he thought he was as one bewitched while he drew...phrases and fullest clauses that he could invent. In the act which asserted the king's power of the militia, the power of arming and levying the subjects... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 pages
...Primrose, the draftsman of the worst Acts, is one instance. " He often confessed to me," says Burnet, " that he thought he was as one bewitched while he "...up with the highest " phrases and fullest clauses he could invent." In one case Primrose had so worded an Act that, but for the interposition of another... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 878 pages
...Primrose, the draftsman of the worst Acts, is one instance. " He often confessed to me," says Burnet, " that he thought he was as one bewitched while he "...drew them ; for, not considering the ill use might be mads " of them afterwards, he drew them with preambles full of " extravagant rhetoric, reflecting severely... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1897 - 666 pages
...extent in a most extraordinary manner. Primrose had the drawing of these acts. He often confessed to me, that he thought he was as one bewitched while he drew...phrases and fullest clauses that he could invent. In the act which asserted the king's power of the militia, the power of arming and levying the subjects... | |
 | Alexander Smellie - Covenanters - 1908 - 402 pages
...Burnet that he thought he was " as one bewitched " when he sat down to draft his bills and acts, " for, not considering the ill use might be made of...them up with the highest phrases and fullest clauses he could invent." England had to mourn the illegalities of its statesmen in those months of the King's... | |
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He often confessed to me, that he thought he was as one bewitched while he drew them ; for, not considering the ill use might be made of them afterwards, he drew them with preambles full of extravagant rhetoric, reflecting severely on the proceedings... 