📔 The History of England from the Accession of James the Second

He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win plates from Tories.

The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes.

The sovereign was undoubtedly competent to remit penalties without limit.

That judgment James had notoriously obtained […] by dismissing scrupulous magistrates, and by placing on the bench other magistrates more courtly.

[William] Penn, therefore, exhorted the fellows not to rely on the goodness of their cause, but to submit, or at least to temporise.

[…] during the eighteen years which had elapsed since the Restoration, the hatred of Puritanism had abated, and the hatred of Popery had increased.

That intense patriotism which is peculiar to the members of societies congregated within a narrow space was, in such circumstances, strongly developed.

The nation obeyed the call, rallied round the sovereign, and enabled him to quell the disaffected minority.

His very selfishness therefore is sublimed into public spirit: and this public spirit is stimulated to fierce enthusiasm by sympathy, by the desire of applause, and by the dread of infamy.

The days when he was a canter and a rebel.