Among the many facts which prove that the standard of honour and virtue among the public men of that age was low, the admiration excited by Rochester's constancy is, perhaps, the most decisive.
In his fall he dragged down Clarendon.

On the seventh of January 1687, the Gazette announced to the people of London that the Treasury was put into commission.

On the eighth arrived at Dublin a despatch formally signifying that in a month Tyrconnel would assume the government of Ireland.

It was not without great difficulty that this man had surmounted the numerous impediments which stood in the way of his ambition.

It was well known that the extermination of the English colony in Ireland was the object on which his heart was set.