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Title: The history of England, from the accession of James the Second
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859 Firth, C. H. (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
Subjects: Great Britain -- History James II, 1685-1688 Great Britain -- History William and Mary, 1689-1702
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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portray the Lord Keeper otherwise than as the most ignoble of mankind.Yet the intellect of Guildford was clear, his industry great, his proficiencyin letters and science respectable, and his legal learning more thanrespectable. His faults were selfishness, cowardice, and meanness. Hewas not insensible to the power of female beauty, nor averse from excessin wine. Yet neither wine nor beauty could ever seduce the cautiousand frugal libertine, even in his earliest youth, into one fit of indiscreetgenerosity. Though of noble descent, he rose in his profession by payingignominious homage to all who possessed influence in the courts. Hebecame Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and as such was party tosome of the foulest judicial murders recorded in our history. He hadsense enough to perceive from the first that Oates and Bedloe wereimpostors : but the Parliament and the country were greatly excited :the government had yielded to the pressure ; and North was not a man ,■.:.. •.,■-,.-..
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