 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 644 pages
...every thing, and deny himself in nothing, that might maintain his greatness, or gratify his appetites. He was unhappily made for drunkenness. For as he drank...drunkards one after another; so it scarce ever appeared, 1660. that he was disordered ; and after the greatest excesses, an hour or two of sleep carried them... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 558 pages
...that might maintain his greatness. He was unVOL. IV. N happily made for drunkenness, for he had drunk all his friends dead, and was able to subdue two or...so it scarce ever appeared that he was disordered after the greatest drinking : • an hour or two of sleep carried all off entirely, that no sign of... | |
 | John Heiton - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1859 - 266 pages
...repetition of these. We may refer to the famous Duke of Rothes, of whom Burnet says : — " He was happily made for drunkenness. For as he drank all his friends...greatest excesses, an hour or two of sleep carried them off so entirely, that no sign of them remained. He would go about business without any uneasiness,... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...nothing that might maintain his greatness. He was unhappily made for drunkenness, for he had drunk all his friends dead, and was able to subdue two or...so it scarce ever appeared that he was disordered after the greatest drinking : an hour or two of sleep carried all off so entirely, that no sign of... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1861 - 520 pages
...nothing that might maintain his greatness. He was unhappily made for drunkenness, for he had drunk all his friends dead, and was able to subdue two or...so it scarce ever appeared that he was disordered after the greatest drinking : an hour or two of sleep carried all off so entirely, that no sign of... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1871 - 588 pages
...nothing that might maintain his greatness. He was unhappily made for drunkenness, for be had drunk all his friends dead, and was able to subdue two or...sets of drunkards one after another; so it scarce erer appeared that he was disordered after the greatest drinking : an hour or two of sleep carried... | |
 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1867 - 772 pages
...drnnkeuness. For as he drank all his friends dead, and was ahle to suhdue two or three sets of drnnkards, one after another, so it scarce ever appeared that...after the greatest excesses, an hour or two of sleep earned them all off so entirely that no sign of them remained. He would go ahout his husiness without... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1885 - 440 pages
...this physical gift. " He was unhappily made for drunkenness," says Bishop Burnet, " for he had drunk all his friends dead, and was able to subdue two or...so it scarce ever appeared that he was disordered after the greatest drinking : an hour or two of 186 sleep carried all off entirely, that no sign of... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1890 - 332 pages
...nothing that might maintain his greatness. He was unhappily made for drunkenness, for he had drunk all his friends dead, and was able to subdue two or...so it scarce ever appeared that he was disordered after the greatest drinking : an hour or two of sleep carried all off so entirely, that no sign of... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1897 - 666 pages
...every thing, and deny himself in nothing, that might maintain his greatness, or gratify his appetites. He was unhappily made for drunkenness ; for as he...friends dead, and was able to subdue two or three sets front of political life. As to his August 27, 1678. Pepys, July 28, reputation among his friends for... | |
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He had but one maxim, to which he adhered firmly, that he had to do everything, and deny himself in nothing, that might maintain his greatness. He was unhappily made for drunkenness, for he had drunk all his friends dead, and was able to subdue two or... 
