Evenings with a Reviewer
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ISBN13: 9780217474917
Paperback|9780217474917
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: It makes a very good speech. But there is one part in which you must surely have made a mistake?I mean in the allusion to the growing strength of the prerogative. I should have thought that a dangerous topic, all things considered. So should I; and if I were bound to believe that James's ideas of prerogative and his methods of maintaining it were as unconstitutional as our popular historians represent them to have been, I should have given up that part of the speech as hopelessly obscure. But the words which remain have the stamp of Bacon so strong upon them that I can hardly doubt that they were taken from his mouth, and they are at the same time so significant as hardly to bear any other meaning. However you may as well have them exactly as they stand, and judge for yourself. The King had made such a track in almost all the points of his prerogative, as the footsteps of King James will ever remain.?Joy to him that this done when he the procurator of the King's prerogative. The King's prerogative groweth stronger by continuance; not like a bowstring or a watch; contrary here; for more settled now than at first. These are the -words exactly as they stand in the Commons' Journals. If you can suggest any words, the insertion of which between these expressions would give- the argument a different and a more natural turn, suggest them. For I find upon comparing similar notes of some other speeches of Bacon's with the speeches as reported by himself, that there is no limit whatever to the omissions, but that the words set down are generally correct. For my own part, I cannot by using the utmost license of insertion get rid either of this allusion to the growing strength of the prerogative, or of Bacon's congratulation with himself upon the fact. Now, if we are to believe t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217474917 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217474918 |
| Weight | 1.24 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.85 In |
| List Price | $24.11 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 384 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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