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Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… for it seems, if he had but held his tongue when he was sober, he had never troubled him. I would have no member to … we should go to part States, it might happen to us as to a sober man that attempts to part two drunkards. He is often …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… a justice that I cannot understand. I remember what a very sober person said of this business. While the general tax …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… came into the other House, where he first made a very sober and full discourse of the occasion of the calling of …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… in the afternoon. This council is a grave council and sober, and ought not to do things in the dark. A matter of …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… disputant. He was accounted by those of his persuasion a sober man in his discourse, and to have nothing of impiety, …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… for their quiet to their situation. It was ill said of a sober person: "a French parasite." 8 Those that are for … with that stream. For the Parliament's party, an honest, sober, grave people, that groaned under oppressions, thirsted … was universally true. On the other side, there was only a sober, quiet, reformed people, generally thought, perhaps not …