Gilbert Burnet
Gilbert Burnet was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was highly respected as a cleric, a preacher, an academic, a writer and a historian.
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Background
- Born in
- Edinburgh
- Educated at
- University of AberdeenUniversity of Aberdeen School of Law
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society
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Trending topics shown first"he chief Design of our whole Law, and of all the several Rules of our Constitution, is to secure and maintain our Liberty."
"The measures of Power, and by consequence of Obedience, must be taken from the express Laws of any State or Body of Men, from the Oaths that they swear, or from immemorial Prescription, and a long Pos…"
"he queen spoke to myself ... I asked leave to speak my mind plainly; which she granted: I said, any treaty by which Spain and the West Indies were left to king Philip, must in a little while deliver u…"
"It is certain, That the Law of Nature has put no difference nor subordination among Men, except it be that of Children to Parents, or of Wives to their Husbands; so that with Relation to the Law of Na…"
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1643
Born
Birth1715
Died
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