Who Wrote Eik?N Basilik??
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ISBN13: 9780217145541
Paperback|9780217145541
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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: ing of our royal father, of blessed memory, when he was in like circumstances, That there is little distance between the prisons, and the graves of Princes; which afterwards proved too true in his case4. These words are at the beginning of the last chapter of that book. I conceive it is not possible, that a Prince in circumstances such as James then was, should have dared to make this use of a passage, which he was persuaded was not written by his father. I shall say nothing of the splendid collection of the Works of King Charles, and of the separate editions of the Icon Basilike, printed with the royal letters patent of both the Kings declaring, or with other vouchers recognizing the book, as the work of their father. This part of the subject has been fully discussed, and perhaps quite as much stress laid upon it as it deserves, by Mr. WagstafFe and others. After all this investigation, the time is now come, that we return again to the questions which were asked before. What shall we think ? Are we prepared to sum up, and pronounce judgment ? For which party shall we decide ? Plainly here are many irreconcileable inconsistencies between the two sides. Both accounts cannot be true. First, therefore, with regard to Dr. Gauden. His claim, undoubtedly, is very explicit and pe- Wagslnffe's Vindication. P. 22. remptory. Certainly, it might command our assent, if we be prepared to yield to confident and pertina cious asseveration. Further, it is supported by the direct testimonies of Mrs. Gauden, and Dr. Walker.?But we saw how they have supported it. They appear to add little or nothing, which might not have been infused, and which there is not much reason to believe was infused, by Dr. Gauden: so that both their testimonies, at the best, are little more ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217145541 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021714554X |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $21.05 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 152 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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