Yet none of these things had ever seemed to move him.

His selfconceit had been proof against ridicule, and his dauntless temper against danger.

But on this occasion his fortitude seems to have failed him.

To be stigmatized by the popular branch of the legislature as a teacher of doctrines so servile that they disgusted even Tories, to be joined in one sentence of condemnation with the editor of Filmer, was too much.

How deeply Burnet was wounded appeared many years later, when, after his death, his History of his Life and Times was given to the world.