The Dublin Review, Vol. 28 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 28 There is a force and significance in many of the simple epithets by which the medieval nations were wont to distinguish their sovereigns, which it would be difficult to surpass by any of the modern refinements of language. The history of the hateful reign of Pedro I. of Castile is told, if not with the same distinctness, certainly with infinitely more moral effect, by the single adjective in which his contemporaries embodied their notions regarding it, than by a full and detailed account of the enormities through which he merited this odious epithet. And, if the value of history be measured by the lesson which it conveys, it is impossible to doubt the importance of these compendious registers of the popular judgment upon the character of the sovereign, not merely as a record of the past, but still more as a warning for the future. There are few rulers, however selfish or depraved, who could be entirely insensible to the contrast between the place occupied in popular history by such names as those of Lewis the Pious or Alfonso the Wise, and that assigned by the contempt and execration of past and present generations to the memory of Carlos the Bad or Peter the Cruel; still fewer are there, perhaps, so hardened as to be entirely beyond its influence. At the same time the popular voice, then as now, was far from being infallible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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