This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...in the composition of a history of England, only six books of which were ever finished. These carry the story only to the battle of Hastings, leaving it at the most interesting period; but they are written accurately, minutely, and often eloquently. Milton himself declared, at a subsequent period, when his party was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...in the composition of a history of England, only six books of which were ever finished. These carry the story only to the battle of Hastings, leaving it at the most interesting period; but they are written accurately, minutely, and often eloquently. Milton himself declared, at a subsequent period, when his party was firmly seated in power, when he had no reason to suppress the truth, but when, on the contrary, it would have redounded to his political advantage to have asserted his active participation in the execution of the king, that he had not been accessory to the fate of Charles. "Neither did I write any thing," he says, "respecting the regal authority, till the king, proclaimed an enemy by the senate, and overcome in arms, was brought captive to his trial, and condemned to suffer death. When indeed some of the Presbyterian leaders, lately the most inveterately hostile to Charles, but now irritated by the prevalence of the Independents in the nation and the senate, and stung with resentment, not of the fact, but of their own want of power to commit it, exclaimed against the sentence of the Parliament upon the king, and raised what commotions they could by daring to assert that the doctrine of the Protestant divines, and of all the reformed churches was strong in reprobation of this severity to kings, then at length I conceived it to be my duty publicly to oppose so much obvious and palpable falsehood. Neither did I then direct my argument personally against Charles, but, by the testimony of many of the most eminent divines, I proved what course of conduct might lawfully be observed towards tyrants in general; and with the zeal almost of a preacher, I attacked the strange ignorance or the wonderful impudence of these men, who had lately a...
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