The Living Age Volume 65. Eliakim Littell
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Author: Eliakim Littell
Page Count: 684 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d3by36x8sj6cra.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/2361/9781236165084.jpg
ISBN: 9781130340457
File size: 40 Mb
Download Link: The Living Age Volume 65
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Author: Eliakim Littell
Page Count: 684 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d3by36x8sj6cra.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/2361/9781236165084.jpg
ISBN: 9781130340457
File size: 40 Mb
Download Link: The Living Age Volume 65
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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. 1860 Excerpt: ... portrait of William, and in his description of his eonduct up to 1688, that we find the greatest marks of Lord Macaulay's unfairness. He says that the Prince of Orange was consistent throughout, that his one object was to form a league against Louis XIV., and to bind England to it cordially--that, accordingly, he was sincerely loyal to James whenever that sovereign wavered in his French allegiance, and that he seized the crown of England and drove his father-in-law into exile, from no motive of personal ambition, but solely to realize his grand ideal. If this be true, we are at a loss to understand why William supported the Exclusion Bill, and at least befriended the Duke of Monmouth--a policy which could have no other objects than those of accelerating his own title to the succession, or else of wantonly insulting his near relation. Waiving the question whether he made use of the ill-fated Monmouth as a pioneer and scapegoat of revolution--a question which D'Avaux answers boldly in the affirmative--or whether he was against the duke's enterprise, it would be difficult to show, on cither supposition, that he had any thing in view but his own interests. Or was it from regard to a European league, made up, in part, of Catholic powers, that he acknowledged the Prince of Wales at his birth, availed himself of the cry in England against his legitimacy, assured the emperor of Austria that, in invading England, he was not taking the crown for himself, and then seized upon that crown by dexterous policy--such conduct being especially calculated to break up his Catholic alliances? This splendid view of William's policy, which clears it from the stain of any selfish ambition, and ascribes it solely to a lofty magnanimity, is, in short, not only contradicted by the f...
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