Men were now though silent, not quiet .-- _Swift_.
Nonsense, or printer's mistake.

It should be, "Silent, though not quiet." _Ibid, Burnet_.

One Carstairs, a loose and vicious gentleman .-- _Swift_.
Epithets well placed.
P.404._Burnet_.

It was an extraordinary thing that a random cannon shot should have killed him [Turenne] .-- _Swift_.

How extraordinary?
Might it not kill him as well as another man?
P.406._Burnet_, in the battle at St.Omer between the Prince of Orange (afterwards King William) and the Duke of Orleans:--some regiments of marines, on whom the Prince depended much, did basely run away.