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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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f Englandon their victorious general Fairfax, and had been part of the dower LHermilage, ^ 1695. ^ Allusions to the state of the currency abound in the essays, plays, and poems, which appearedabout this time. I will give two or three specimens. Dr\den, in the dedication of his translationof the ^neid, complains that he had completely exhausted his vocabulary in order to meet thedemands of the original. What, he says, had become of me, if Virgil had taxed me withanother book ? I had certainly been reduced to pay the public in hammered money, for want ofmilled. In Gibbers Comedy, entitled Loves Last .Shift, or the Fool in Fashion, a gayyoung gentleman says : Virtue is as much debased as our money ; and, faith, Dei Gratia is ashard to be found in a girl of sixteen as round the Ijrim of an old shilling. Blackmores Satire onWit is nothing but a clumsy allegory, in which our literature is typified by coin so much impairedthat it must be called in, thrown into the melting pot, and restamped.
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JACOB TONSONFrom a mezzotint by J. Faber, after a painting by Sir G. Kneller 2570 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, xxi which Fairfaxs daiiglitcr had br()UL,dit to the biilHant and dissoluteBuckingham. Thither Buckingham, having wasted in mad intem-perance, sensual and intellectual, all the choicest bounties of natureand of fortune, had carried the feeble ruins of his fine person and ofhis fine mind ; and there he had closed his chequered life under thathumble roof and on that coarse pallet which the great satirist of thesucceeding generation described in immcjrtal verse. The spaciousdomain passed to a new race ; and in a few years a palace moresplendid and costly than had ever been inhabited by the magnificentVilliers rose amidst the beautiful woods and waters which had been his,and was called by the once humble name of Buncombe. Since the Revolution the state of the currency had been repeatedlydiscussed in Parliament. In 1689 a committee of the Commons hadbeen appointed to investigate the su

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