The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen ... 5
The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen ... 5
Thomas Mortimer
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Of this number is Robert Boyle, a man fuperior to titles, and al- moft to praifc ; illuflrious by birth, by learning-, and by virtue. He was the feventh fon, and the fourteenth child, of Richard Boyle, earl of Corke. He was born at Lifmore, in. the county of Corke, and province of VoL.V. ^ I , lyiunftcr, 170 T H E L I F E O F Mun/lcr, in the kingdom of Ireland, in the year 1627 ; and, though he was the only one of his father's fons who attained to manhood without being honoured with a title, an...d alfo the only one who did not diflinguifh himfelf in public bufi- nefs, yet his life was not lefs ufefui to his country than that of the gre^iteft ftatefman. His father, whofe life we have given in our third volume, committed him to the care of a plain country nurfe, with inftruftions to bring him up as hardily as if he had been her own fon ; which fhe purfucd, and thereby gave him a ftrong and vigorous conftitution, which he afterwards Joft by being treated yi^ith too great tendernefs. When he was about three years old, he had the misfortune to lofe his mother ; for which he fhews gicat regret, in fome memoirs that he has left us of the more early part of his life, efteemiog it a An- gular unhappinefs never to have feen one of his parents fo as, to remember her 5 and the more fo, from the charafter he heard of her in her own fa- mily, and from all who knew her.
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