P. v. [p. xxi.[2]] Clarendon. We might
give instances ... of those points ... which have
brought the prince, sometimes, under the disadvantageous
suspicion of being inclined to the love of arbitrary
power.—Swift. What king doth
not love, and endeavour at it?
[Footnote: 2 The references in square brackets
apply to the recent Oxford edition of Clarendon’s
“Rebellion” (6 vols., cr. 8vo, 1888).
The prefaces can only be referred to by the page,
but throughout the body of the work the paragraphs
are separately numbered for each book. [T. S.]]
P, vi. [p. xxii.] Clarendon. The people
may not always be restrained from attempting by force
to do themselves right, though they ought not.—Swift.
They ought!
P. 9. [par. 12.] Clarendon. All men being
inhibited, by the proclamation at the dissolution
of the Parliament in the fourth year, so much as to
mention or speak as if a Parliament should be called.—Swift.
Great weakness.
P. 47. [par. 128.] Clarendon. He [the
Earl of Montgomery] had not sat many years in that
sunshine, when a new comet appeared in court, Robert
Carr, a Scotsman, quickly after declared favourite.—Swift.
A Scottish king makes a Scottish favourite.
P. 48. [par. 133.] Clarendon. The Earl
of Carlisle ... wrought himself into ... greater affection
and esteem with the whole English nation, than any
other of that country; by choosing their friendships,
and conversation, and really preferring it to any
of his own—Swift. A miracle
in a Scot!
P. 58. [par. 159.] Clarendon. During the
whole time that these pressures were exercised, and
those new, and extraordinary ways were run, that is,
from the dissolution of the Parliament in the fourth
year, to the beginning of this Parliament, which was
above twelve years, this kingdom ... enjoyed the greatest
calm, and the fullest measure of felicity, that any
people in any age, for so long time together, have
been blessed with.—Swift. Partial.
P. 59. [par. 162.] Clarendon. The kingdoms,
we now lament, were alone looked upon as the garden
of the world; Scotland (which was but the wilderness
of that garden), etc.—Swift.
The dunghill!
Ibid, [par. 163.] Clarendon. Those
rough courses, which made him [the King] perhaps less
loved at home, made him more feared abroad; by how
much the power of kingdoms is more reverenced than
their justice by their neighbours: and it may
be this consideration might not be the least motive,
and may not be the worst excuse for those counsels.—Swift
Too arbitrary.
P. 60. [par. 163.] Clarendon. Nerva was
deified for uniting, Imperium et Libertas.—Swift.
“Libertas” underlined and “nego”
written in the margin.
