"Who Wrote Eikōn Basilikē?": Considered and Answered, in Two Letters, Addressed to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury

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J. Murray, 1824 - 413 стор.
 

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Сторінка 326 - Let me have a shirt on more than ordinary,' said the King, ' by reason the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake, which some observers will imagine proceeds from fear. I would have no such imputation. I fear not Death ! Death is not terrible to me. I bless my God I am prepared.
Сторінка 317 - The king's affection to the queen was of a very extraordinary alloy ; a composition of conscience, and love, and generosity, and gratitude, and all those noble affections which raise the passion to the greatest height ; insomuch as he saw with her eyes, and determined by her judgment ; and did not only pay her this adoration, but desired that all men should know that he was swayed by her : which was not good for either of them.
Сторінка 319 - France, where his mother is to have the sole care of him in all things but one, which is his religion, and that must still be under the care of the Bishop of Salisbury ; and this I undertake his mother shall submit unto ; concerning which, by my next despatch, I will advertise her. This is all. So I rest, Your most assured friend, CHARLES R.
Сторінка 311 - It being remarked that the king, the moment before he stretched out his neck to the executioner, had said to Juxon, with a very earnest accent, the single word, remember...
Сторінка 327 - But my now long and sharp adversity hath so reconciled in me those natural antipathies between life and death which are in all men that I thank God the common terrors of it are dispelled and the special horror of it, as to my particular, much allayed. For although my death at present may justly be represented to me with all those terrible aggravations which the policy of cruel and implacable enemies can put upon it (affairs being drawn to the very dregs of malice), yet, I bless God, I can look upon...
Сторінка 348 - I am earnest and resolute to maintain it, not so much out of piety as policy and reason of State. Wherein so far, indeed, reason of State doth induce me to approve that government above any other, as I find it impossible for a prince to preserve the State in quiet, unless he hath such an influence upon Churchmen, and they such a dependence on him, as may best restrain the seditious exorbitancies of ministers...
Сторінка 234 - In this treaty the king manifested his great parts and abilities, strength of reason, and quickness of apprehension, with much patience in hearing what was objected against him ; wherein he allowed all freedom, and would himself sum up the arguments, and gave a most clear judgment upon them. His unhappiness was, that he had a better opinion of others...
Сторінка 312 - He was also one of those divines who signed the protestation against the king's trial ; he even went further than most of them on this occasion, for he published a religious and loyal protestation against the contemplated proceedings ; and, after the king's death, wrote what he called ' A just invective against those of the army and their abettors who murthered King Charles I.
Сторінка 318 - A principal point of your honour will consist in your conferring all respect, love, and protection on your mother, my wife; who hath many ways deserved well of me, and chiefly in this, that (having been a means to bless me with so many hopeful children, all which, with their mother, I recommend to your love and care) she hath been content, with incomparable magnanimity and patience, to suffer both for and with me and you.
Сторінка 314 - ... to usurp power over them; let, then, no passion betray you to any study of revenge upon those whose own sin and folly will sufficiently punish them in due time. But as soon as the forked arrow of factious emulations is drawn out, use all princely arts and clemency to heal the wounds that the smart of the cure may not equal the anguish of the hurt. I have offered acts of indemnity and oblivion, to so great a latitude, as may include all, that can but suspect themselves to be any way obnoxious...

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