Volume 5
The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In six volumes. To which is prefixed the life of the author / [by T. Birch].
- Robert Boyle
- Date:
- 1772
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. In six volumes. To which is prefixed the life of the author / [by T. Birch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Reduétion of Ireland, 4 ér) Cox, Introduc- tion to the 2d volume of his Hif- tory of freland, vive what he fufpetted might not be aufpicisus. to the Englifb, or conducible to the end for cubich it was defigned, wherein he prophefied not ill(p). Mr. Borlafe tells us(g) that his lordfhip ‘* was a perfon, for his abilities and knowledge in thé affairs of the world, “¢ eminently obfervable, inafmuch, as though he was no peer of England, he was ad- © mitted to fit in the lords houfe upon the wool-facks, ut.confiliarius.. And for all the ‘* eftate he arrived at, (which was the greateft in the memory of the laft age) none «ever taxed him with exorbitances, but fuch as‘thought princes had too little, and «* religious men not enough.” Another writer (r) likewife gives him this character, that he was ‘ one of the moft extraordinary perfons, either that or any other age «« hath produced, with refpect to the great and juft acquifitions of eftate that he «© made, and the publick works that he began and finifhed, for the advancement * of the Englifh intereft and the proteftant religion in Ireland; as churches, alms- ‘*-houfes, free-{chools, bridges, caftles, and towns, viz. Li/more, Tallow, Claghma= ‘ kilty, Lnifkeen, Caftletown, and Bandon, (which laft place coft him 14,000/.) info- much that when Cromwell faw thefe prodigious improvements, which he little ex- pected to find in Jreland, he declared, that if there had been an earl of Corke ix every province, it would have been impoffible for the Irifh to have raifed a rebellion. And whilit he was carrying on thefe folid works, he lived in his family ata rate ““ of plenty, that exceeded thofe who confumed great eftates in the lavith ways of ‘« all-ordered excefs. His motto, God’s providence is my inkeritance, thews, from. ‘whence he derived all his bleflings; the greateft. of which was the numesous and noble pofterity he had to leave his eftate unto.” . an 6 o €e. ~ $ a ay & rn n @ a“ & Lal Roser Boyre, Efq; his feventh and. youngeft fon, and one of the greateft orna- ments of this noble family, as well. as the age and country in which he lived, has left us fome memoirs of the younger part of his life, drawn wp foon after his return — from his travels, which the reader will undoubtedly choofe to, read in his. own words. An Account of PHILARETUS, fie Mr. R. BOY LE,] during his Minority. OT needlefsly to confound the herald with the hiftorian, and begin a relation: by a pedigree, I fhall content myfelf to. inform you, that the inymediate parents of our Philaretus were, of the female fex, [Cathetine, daughter of Sir Geoffry Fenton] a woman, that wanted nat beauty, and. was. rich in-virtue, and on the fa- ther’s fide, that Richard Boyle,. earl. of Coxke, who, by God’s blefling on his profpe- a fortune, that his profperity has found many admirers, but few parallels. He was born the 14th child of his father (of which five women, and four mens, do yet furvive) in the year 1626-7, upon St. Paul’s converfion day,, at a country-. aaments of the province of Munjfer, in which it ftood; but now fo ruined by. the fad fate of war, that it ferves only for an inftance and a le@ure of the inftability of thar](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30416206_0005_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
