The Queen

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: grandeur of her determination. She did not take this resolution, in the midst of a circle of lords and courtiers, nor with a formidable army at her back, prepared for the invasion of England. But she had, at her side, reasure, which kings often want even in the hour of prosperity. In a British merchant, in...
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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: grandeur of her determination. She did not take this resolution, in the midst of a circle of lords and courtiers, nor with a formidable army at her back, prepared for the invasion of England. But she had, at her side, reasure, which kings often want even in the hour of prosperity. In a British merchant, in Mr. Alderman Wood, shepossessed the noblest work 'of God, an honest man. The independent spirit, the manliness, the temperate zeal, and unshaken loyalty of this faithful subject, have endeared him to all honest men, and given his name a shining place in the page of history. The Queen landed, and reached the capital, amidst the lore, and prayers, and joyful acclamations of her faithful people. The panic of conscious guilt, the cold paralysis of a premeditated atrocity, seized her enemies. Dreading their hired witnesses, apprehensive of discovery and defeat, startled by the prospect of impeachment and the block, they would have capitulated; and, again anxious for their own escape, they offered terms. But, heaping oppression upon oppression, and wrong upon wrong, these inhuman and merciless persecutors, at the end of twenty- four years of unmerited conjugal injuries, would have the weaker party, the sufferer and the innocent, to consent, herself, by a public act, and a fresh sacrifice, to a last surrender, incompatible with her honor. At that moment, when humanity wept and trembled, and simulation, cloaked in the outward sanctities of religion, had marked her fall, a deep prayer ascended to Heaven in her behalf, from the fire-side sympathies of England; from the chaste wives and mothers, the true husbands and fathers, from the hearts and souls of the whole of her faithful subjects. Her noble nature rose superior to this last hard trial: she stood firm, and rejected the insid...