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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809. Excerpt: ... THB LIVES OF THE THREE NORMANS, KINGS OF ENGLAND: WILLIAM THE FIRST, WILLIAM THE SECOND, AND HENRY THE FIRST. Written by I. H. Improbefacit qui in ulicno libra ingenious est. Mart. Imprinted at London, by R. B. Anno 1613. Quarto, containing one-hundred and thirty-one Pages, besides the Epistle Dedicatory to Charles Prince of Wales, which contains five Pages more, in smaller Types. To the high and mighty Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. Most illustrious Prince, OUR late, too late born, or too soon dying Prince, Henry of famous memory, your deceased brother, sent for me, a few months before his death. And, at my second coming to his presence, among some other speeches, he complained much of our histories of England; and that the English nation, which is inferior to none in honourable actions, should be surpassed by all, in leaving the memory of them to posterity. For this cause he blamed the negligence of former ages; as if they were ignorant of their own deservings, as if they esteemed themselves unworthy of their worth. I answered, that I conceived these causes hereof; one, that men of sufficiency were otherwise employed, either in publick affairs, or in wrestling with the world, for maintenance or encrease of their private estates. Another is, for that men might safely write of others in manner of a tale, but, in manner of a history, safely they could not; because, albeit they should write of men long since dead, and whose posterity is clean worn out, yet some alive, finding themselves foul in those vices, which they see observed, reproved, and condemned in others, their guiltiness maketh them apt to conceive, that, whatsoever the words are, the finger pointeth only at them. The last is, for that the argument of our English history hath been so foiled he...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154287110
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154287114
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 490 gr

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