The History of England From the Accession of James Ii, volume 5
The History of England From the Accession of James Ii, volume 5
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I'here was no more popular tribune in Guildhall. Such was the com- mencement of a life so miserable that all the indignation ex- cited by great faults is overpowered by pity. A guilty pas- sion, amounting to a madness, left on the moral character of the unhappy man a stain at which even libertines looked grave. He tried to make the errors of his private life for- gotten by splendid and perilous services to a public cause ; and, having endured in that cause penury and exile, the gloom of a dunge...on, the prospect of a scaffold, the ruin of a noble estate, he was so unfortunate as to be regarded by the party for which he had sacrificed every thing as a cow- ard, if not a traitor. Yet even against such accumulated disasters and disgraces his vigorous and aspiring mind bore up. His parts and eloquence gained for him the ear of the House of Lords ; and at length, though not till his constitution was so broken that he was fitter for flannel and cushions than for a laborious office at Whitehall, he was put at the head of one of the most important depart- Digitized by Google 188 HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
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I'here was no more popular tribune in Guildhall. Such was the com- mencement of a life so miserable that all the indignation ex- cited by great faults is overpowered by pity. A guilty pas- sion, amounting to a madness, left on the moral character of the unhappy man a stain at which even libertines looked grave. He tried to make the errors of his private life for- gotten by splendid and perilous services to a public cause ; and, having endured in that cause penury and exile, the gloom of a dunge...on, the prospect of a scaffold, the ruin of a noble estate, he was so unfortunate as to be regarded by the party for which he had sacrificed every thing as a cow- ard, if not a traitor. Yet even against such accumulated disasters and disgraces his vigorous and aspiring mind bore up. His parts and eloquence gained for him the ear of the House of Lords ; and at length, though not till his constitution was so broken that he was fitter for flannel and cushions than for a laborious office at Whitehall, he was put at the head of one of the most important depart- Digitized by Google 188 HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
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