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A bright, clean complete set of the 1823 edition of Burnet's History of His Own Time. Bound in half-leather and marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt lettering and decoration. With the Suppressed Passages of the First Volume, and Notes by the Earl of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, and Speaker Onslow, hitherto Unpublished. To which are added The Cursory Remarks of Swift, and other observations. With a bookseller's label for 'W. J. Sackett' on the front pastedown. With a nameplate for 'Reginald Thornton' on the front pastedown. Gilbert Burnet, 1643 1715, was a Scottish theologian and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was respected as a cleric, a preacher, and an academic, as well as a writer and historian. He was educated by his father, and at the University of Aberdeen, where he earned a Master of Arts in Philosophy at the age of thirteen. He earned his Doctor of Divinity by eighteen. He travelled England and Europe for several years and in 1665 returned to be ordained by the Bishop of Edinburgh. In 1669 he accepted the vacant chair of Divinity at the University of Glasgow. With the unsettled political times, he left the University in 1674 and moved to London. In London, his political and religious sentiments prompted him to support the Whigs. His energetic and bustling character led him to take an active part in the controversies of the time, and he endeavoured to bring about reconciliation between Episcopacy and Presbytery. Burnet"s later life was marked by King"s favours, religious controversy, and a self-exile which included some time at The Hague, as William III"s personal chaplain and later a trusted advisor to Queen Mary. As the Dictionary of National Biography tells us, as an author "Burnet can be reckoned as one of the most prolific and substantial of his day. In his lifetime he published more than 140 works, ranging from sermons and short polemics to major works of theology, biography, and history. More important, unlike most authors his works were rarely ignored." Bound in half-calf bindings with marbled paper-covered boards. There is slight wear to the extremities, including slight bumping and rubbing. There is an ink stamp on the front blank, and an ink signature on the title page, of each volume. Bindings are tight and firm. Internally the pages are bright and generally clean. There are the occasional spots, that are most prominent on the first and last few pages. Very Good. Seller Inventory # SET12-B-3
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