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A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, with lists of their works ... / [Anon].

  • Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Date:
1759
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, with lists of their works ... / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ful Trip Papifts, [and they certainly were horrid men] founded very pathetically in a party re- monftrance of the Parliament: But when he was dipped in a civil war, can we in this age {erioufly impute it to him as a crime that He endeavoured to raife an army wherever He could ? His fault was not in propofing to bring over the Irifh, but in having made them neceffary to his affairs. Every body knew that Ee wanted ta do without them, all that he conld have done with them. He had found the Crown in poffef- fion of greater power than is fit to be trufted in a fingle hand: He had exerted it to the utmoft. Could a man, who had ftretched every ftring of prerogative, confent with a good grace to let ic be curtailed ? I argue for the man, not for the particular man. I think Charles to be pitied, becaufe few men in his fituation would have acted better. IT am fure if he had a&ted with more wifdom it had been worfe for us! It re- quired a noblenefs of foul and an effort of un- ~ derftanding united, neither of which he poffeffed, to prefer the happinefs of Mankind to his own Will. He had been bred in a Palace; what idea could that give him of the wretchednefs of a Cot-