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an several predictions ( to which he was naturally superstitious enough ) into that war where he was slain , it is probable might have extended his empire to as great an extent of dominion and reputation as ever it had under any of his predecessors . And here it may not be unfit ( though I believe it will be very unpopular ) to observe how much passion and
prejudice contribute to the corruption of history : for we know not to what else to impute all those relations of the manner of his death , and his last speech- in contempt of our Saviour , tnan to the over zeal of religious
persons of that age ; who , believing his apostacy , thought they could not load his memory with too many rep roaches , nor sufficiently celebrate God ' s mercy in the vengeance acted upon him in so extraordinary a manner . And the Spaniards do still believe that he was killed by Saint
Mercurius with one of the lances which was always kept in that Saint ' s tomb , as it was missed on the day in which Julian was killed , and found again the next day in its place , all bloody . Whereas , if we will believe Ammianus Marcel ! in us . ( who is
incomparably the best writer of that age and was himself in that battle , ) he was hurt in a very sharp charge of the enemy when great , numbers fell on both sides ; and being carried out of the field into his tent , where he lived some days after he found his wound to be mortal , he sent for the principal
officers of his army , made , a long discourse to them of the public affairs and of his particular person and his actions and intentions , full of wisdom and magnanunity , and died with as great serenity and tranquillity of mind as any Roman general of whom we nave received very good account in story / ' & Reli gion and Policy , 8 vo . 1811 . I . 23—25 .
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No . CCLXX 1 II . Magnanimity of a Scottish Prince . . Malcolm the Third having received ^ formation , that one of his nobles had conceived a desi gn against his life , he ^ joined the strictest silence to the in-° j ? > and to <> k no notice of it him-» » till the person accused of this ecrable treason came to his court , in rder to execute his intention . The
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next morning he went 16 hunt , with all the train of his courtiers , and when they were got into the deepest woods of the forest , drew that nobleman away from the rest of the company , and spoke to him thus : " Behold . i we are here alone , armed and mounted alike .
Nobody sees or hears us , or can give either of us aid against the other . If then yon are a brave man , if you have courage and spirit , perform your purpose ; accomplish the promise you have made to my enemies . If you think I ought to be killed by you , when can
you do it better ? when more opportunely ? when more manfully ?—Have you prepared poison for me ? that is a womanish treason . Or would you murder me in my bed ? an adulteress could do that . Or have you hid a dagger to stab me secretly ? that is the deed of a ruffian .. Rather act like a
soldier ; act like a man ; and fight with rne hand to hand ; that your treason may at least be tree from baseness . "At these words , the traitor , as if he had been struck with a thunderbolt , fell at his feet and implored his pardon . " Fear nothing : you shall not suffer any evil from me , " replied the king , and kept his word .
The above story is related ( from the mouth of Malcolm ' s own son , David the First , to Henry II . of England , his great grandson , ) by Ethel red , Abbot oi Rivaux . [ De Genealogia Reg . AngL p . 367- ] See Lord LyHeltons Henry II . 8 vo . I . pp . 94 , 95 .
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No . CCLXXIV . Spiritual Comed y at Rome . < c The Father-Jesuits at Rome have had a play , or spiritual comedy , acted in their Casa Prqfessa ( or part of their college where they read tneir lectures ) concerning the conversion of Japan . In the first scene of which there
appeared a Jesuit making a sermon to the pit about this subject . Thai God , being upon the work of renewing the world , has in this age raised up their society , which his Divine
Majesty hath been so gracious to , that no human power , has been able to oppose it , and such other jimcracks which they brought in a Japanese to reply to : who said , that they did not believe that God sent them thither , but that some enemy ot . mankind wafted them over into then
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1816, page 531, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2456/page/31/
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