Notes, Theological, Political, and Miscellaneous, Ed. by D. Coleridge (Paperback)

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. 1853 Excerpt: ...should give sentence against the Parliament and Armies of England, as guilty of all the blood that had been shed as Rebels and Murderers Yet there was no other alternative. That he and his Peers were influenced by Cromwell is a gross calumny, sufficiently refuted by their after lives and by their death hours, and has been amply falsified by Mrs. Hutchinson in her incomparable Life of her incomparable Husband Colonel Hutchinson. O that I might have such an action to remember on my Death-bed. The only enviable part of Charles's fate and life is thatJiis name is connected with the greatest names of ancient or modern times--Qui cum victus erat, tantis certdsse feratur. NOTES ON THE ROYALIST'S DEFENCE, VINDICATING THE KING'S PROCEEDINGS IN THE LATE WAR MADE AGAINST HIM. The Epistle to the Reader. Now amongst those, he who hath once got the reputation of an Antiquary, and hath accustomed himself to discourse of things out of the common road, ipso facto, is master of this art. It is then but making use of some dull expressions found in an old worm-eaten Record, selecting the mistaken opinions of some particular judge's obiter, delivered in arguments, or some dark sentences taken out of a rotten manuscript. And if any printed book be deigned the mentioning, it must not be the known authentic authors, reporting the resolutions of the Courts of Justice, nor such as show the common and constant practice of the kingdom, which is the Law itself, but some antiquated thing, whose author is unknown, and his meaning is obscure. These rules being observed, his work is done; the people, observing this Cynic's discourse to be different from other men, presently conclude him to be far more learned than his fellow lawyers, and gaze upon him as an infallible guide. Palpably a s...