[Gutenberg 19458] • The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 / An Historical Novel
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- Authors
- West
- Tags
- great britain -- history -- civil war , 1642-1649 -- fiction
- Date
- 2012-05-12T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.38 MB
- Lang
- en
*[...]formidable at sea; lastly, for a complement of all these blessings, they were enjoyed under the protection of a King of the most harmless disposition; the most exemplary piety; the greatest sobriety, chastity, and mercy, that ever Prince had been endowed with: But all these blessings could but enable, not compel, us to be happy. We wanted that sense, acknowledgement, and value of our own happiness, which all but we had; and we took pains to make, when we could not find ourselves miserable. There was in truth a strange absence of understanding in most, and[...].*