The History of England From the Accession of James Ii, volume 5
The History of England From the Accession of James Ii, volume 5
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I'here was no more popular tribune in Guildhall. Such was the com- mencement of a life so miserable that all the indignation ex- cited by great faults is overpowered by pity. A guilty pas- sion, amounting to a madness, left on the moral character of the unhappy man a stain at which even libertines looked grave. He tried to make the errors of his private life for- gotten by splendid and perilous services to a public cause ; and, having endured in that cause penury and exile, the gloom of a dunge...on, the prospect of a scaffold, the ruin of a noble estate, he was so unfortunate as to be regarded by the party for which he had sacrificed every thing as a cow- ard, if not a traitor. Yet even against such accumulated disasters and disgraces his vigorous and aspiring mind bore up. His parts and eloquence gained for him the ear of the House of Lords ; and at length, though not till his constitution was so broken that he was fitter for flannel and cushions than for a laborious office at Whitehall, he was put at the head of one of the most important depart- Digitized by Google 188 HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
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I'here was no more popular tribune in Guildhall. Such was the com- mencement of a life so miserable that all the indignation ex- cited by great faults is overpowered by pity. A guilty pas- sion, amounting to a madness, left on the moral character of the unhappy man a stain at which even libertines looked grave. He tried to make the errors of his private life for- gotten by splendid and perilous services to a public cause ; and, having endured in that cause penury and exile, the gloom of a dunge...on, the prospect of a scaffold, the ruin of a noble estate, he was so unfortunate as to be regarded by the party for which he had sacrificed every thing as a cow- ard, if not a traitor. Yet even against such accumulated disasters and disgraces his vigorous and aspiring mind bore up. His parts and eloquence gained for him the ear of the House of Lords ; and at length, though not till his constitution was so broken that he was fitter for flannel and cushions than for a laborious office at Whitehall, he was put at the head of one of the most important depart- Digitized by Google 188 HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
What to read after The History of England From the Accession of James Ii, volume 5?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Henry Hart Milman, Samuel Austin Allibone, Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan to read onlineMoreLess
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