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Trying To Change A Sovereign.
Treason . Now , this young man—he—lie hacl been TRYING TO CHANGE A SOVEREIGN 1 !! It could not be " attempting to pass and utter , etc ., " for the Sovereign was—Ah . ' let us in awful gratitude to Him who has the hearts of Kings in His rule and governanceand dost dispose and turn them seemeth best to His
, as godly wisdom ; let us , nearly forty years since this sad day , after close upon forty years of wise , benign , wholesome , Christian rule ; let us , my brethren , I repeat , be reverently thankful that we are still enabled to say , may we lon ° - be able to say , is—A GOOD SOVEREIGN !
PART II . A BAD SOVEREIGN .
WHEN JAMES , Duke of York , expressed to his Royal brother his concern at the numerous
reported plots to assassinate His Majesty , old ROWLEY is said to have replied with more
humour than politeness , " Be under no apprehensi on , brother ; rest assured that
nobody would be such a fool as to kill me in order to make thee king . " I
think this anecdote must be true . It so throoughly savours of the caustic smartness of the monarch who " never said a foolish thing , and never did a wise one . " * Charles passed his life in an atmosphere of
assassination . He had learned to look upon it as a natural and inevitable concomitant- of royal station . To differ from him in political opinion—if it were possible to differ from such a vague , nebulous profession as did . duty with him for political opinion—was to " devise and compass " his death ; for
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Trying To Change A Sovereign.
Treason . Now , this young man—he—lie hacl been TRYING TO CHANGE A SOVEREIGN 1 !! It could not be " attempting to pass and utter , etc ., " for the Sovereign was—Ah . ' let us in awful gratitude to Him who has the hearts of Kings in His rule and governanceand dost dispose and turn them seemeth best to His
, as godly wisdom ; let us , nearly forty years since this sad day , after close upon forty years of wise , benign , wholesome , Christian rule ; let us , my brethren , I repeat , be reverently thankful that we are still enabled to say , may we lon ° - be able to say , is—A GOOD SOVEREIGN !
PART II . A BAD SOVEREIGN .
WHEN JAMES , Duke of York , expressed to his Royal brother his concern at the numerous
reported plots to assassinate His Majesty , old ROWLEY is said to have replied with more
humour than politeness , " Be under no apprehensi on , brother ; rest assured that
nobody would be such a fool as to kill me in order to make thee king . " I
think this anecdote must be true . It so throoughly savours of the caustic smartness of the monarch who " never said a foolish thing , and never did a wise one . " * Charles passed his life in an atmosphere of
assassination . He had learned to look upon it as a natural and inevitable concomitant- of royal station . To differ from him in political opinion—if it were possible to differ from such a vague , nebulous profession as did . duty with him for political opinion—was to " devise and compass " his death ; for