An Essay on History; In Three Epistles to Edward Gibbon, Esq. with Notes. by William Hayley, Esq (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1780. Excerpt: ... in my mind all the wonders he performed, which move me to fresh tears: and these I (hare in common with all the world; for the remembrance of him, and the recital of his reign, supplies to me a new subject of lamentation, and must remind others of the loss they have sustained. But let me at length begin the History of my father, from the period most proper: --now the most proper period is that, which will give to my narration the clearest, and most historical appearance. END OF THE NOTES.TO T.HE FIRST EPISTLE. NOTES N O T E S TO THE SECOND EPISTLE. NOTE I. Verse 17. Wsainted Kings renounce, with holy dread, The chaste endearments of their marriage-bed.] It is well known how Edward the Confessor is celebrated for his inviolable chastity by the Monkish Historians--one of them, in particular, is so solicitous to vindicate the piety of Edward in this article, that he passes a severe censure on those, who had imputed his Angular continence to a principle of resentment against the father of his queen --Hanc quoque Rex ut conjugem tali arte tractavit; quod nec thoro removit; nec earn virili more carnaliter cognovit: quod utrum patris illius, qui proditor convictus erat, et familiae ejus odio quod prudenter pro tempore dissimulabatan amore castitatis id fecerit, incertum est aliquibus, qui in dubiis sinistra interpretantur. Veruntamen non benevoli, et veritati, ut videtur, dissoni dicere praesumunt. Quod Rex charitatis et pacis munere ditatus, de genere proditoris haeredes, qui sibi succederent, corrupto semine 2 noluerit noluerit procreare. Sciebat enim rex pacisicus quod filia nihil criminis commisit cum patre proditore, & ideo non respuit thorum virginis; sed ambo unanimi assensu castitatem voverunt, parilique voluntate Thomae Rudborne, Hist, major, in Anglia Sacra. Tom.