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Excerpt from Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. 7: Engraved From Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country, With Biographical and Historical Memories of Their Lives and Actions
Lord Clarendon, who has repeatedly eulogized his character, tells us, that he was in all respects to be preferred to his brother. A much wiser, though, it may be, a less cunning man; for he did not affect dissimulation, which was the other's master piece. He had unquestionable courage. He was in truth a very accomplished person of an excellent judgement, and clear and ready expressions; and, though he had been driven into some unwarrantable actions, he made it very evident he had not been led by any inclinations of his own, and passionately and heartily ran to all opportunities of redeeming it; and in the very article of his death he expressed a marvellous cheerfulness that he had the honour to lose his life in the King's service, and thereby to wipe out the memory of his former transgressions, which he always professed were odious to himself. Burnet tells us that his youth discovered, with an extraordinary capacity, so much ingenuity that candour seemed in him not so much the effect of virtue as nature, since from a child he could never upon any temptation be made to lie. The Bishop adds that he was of a middle stature; his complexion black, but very agreeable; and his whole mien was noble and sprightful.
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