Side lights on English history; (1900) (14780070731)

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Title: Side lights on English history;
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928
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Publisher: London : G. Bell and sons New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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oured or trusted. This was national;and the English being too apt to despiseother nations, and being of more Hvelytempers than the Dutch, grew to expressa contempt and an aversion for themthat went almost to a mutiny. 1692. ... In the beginning of Septemberthere was an earthquake felt in mostplaces in England. ... It had beenhappy for us, if such dismal accidentshad struck us with a deeper sense ofthe judgments of God. We were indeed l:)roug)it to more ofan outward face of virtue and sobriety:and the great examples that the kingand queen set the nation, had madesome considerable alterations, as topublic practices : but we became deeplycorrupted in principle: a disbelief ofrevealed religion, and a prophane mock-ing of the Christian faith, and themysteries of it, became avowed andscandalous. The queen, in the kingsabsence, gave orders to execute the lawsagainst drunkenness, swearing, and theprophanation of the Lords day. . . .Yet the reformation of manners . . .went on but slowly. . . .
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(Sec page ^15.) Traits of William and Mary 211 1694 ... I am now coming towards thefatal period of this book. The queencontinued still to set a great example tothe whole nation, which shined in allthe parts of it. She used all possiblemethods for reforming whatever wasiimiss: she took ladies off from thatidleness, which not only wasted theirtime, but exposed them to many temptations; she engaged many both toread and to work; she wrought manyhours a day herself, with her ladiesand her maids of honour working abouther, while one read to them all; thefemale part of the court had been inthe former reigns subject to muchcensure ; and there was great cause forit; but she freed her court so entirelyfrom all suspicion, that there w^as notso much as a colour for discourses ofthat sort. . . . When I laid all these things together,Avhich I had large opportunities to•observe, it gave a very pleasant pros-pect. . . . but we soon saw this hope-ful view blasted and our expectationsdisappointed in