Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…

Nevertheless I must also say, That if the Anguish of his Public Fatigues threw Sir William into any Faults of Passion, they were but Faults of Passion, soon Recalled: And Spots being soonest seen in Ermine, there was usually the most made of them that could be, by those that were least Free themselves.

Nevertheless I must also say, That if the Anguish of his Publick Fatigues threw Sir William into any Faults of Passion, they were but Faults of Passion, soon Recalled: And Spots being soonest seen in Ermin, there was usually the most made of them that could be, by those that were least Free themselves.

After all, I do not know that I have been, by any personal Obligations or Circumstances, charmed into any Partiality for the Memory of this Worthy Man; but I do here from a real Satisfaction of Conscience concerning him, declare to all the World, that I reckon him, to have been really a very Worthy Man; that few Men in the World rising from so mean an Original, as he, would have acquitted themselves with a thousandth Part of his Capacity or Integrity; that he left unto the World a notable Example of a Disposition to Do Good, and encountered and overcame almost invincible Temptations in doing it.

After all, I do not know that I have been, by any personal Obligations or Circumstances, charmed into any Partiality for the Memory of this Worthy Man; but I do here from a real Satisfaction of Conscience concerning him, declare to all the World, that I reckon him, to have been really a very Worthy Man; that few Men in the World rising from so mean an Original, as he, would have acquitted themselves with a thousandth Part of his Capacity or Integrity; that he left unto the World a notable Example of a Disposition to Do Good, and encountred and overcame almost invincible Temptations in doing it.