The Courtier of the Days of Charles II
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Excerpt from The Courtier of the Days of Charles II: With Other Tales Deep as fruitless are the furrows impressed of late years upon the fair field of society, by the iron share of party-spirit. The Conservatives and Radicals of to-day, scarcely yield in acrimoniousness to the Whigs and Tories of yesterday; and, even in this age of refinement, the world is apt to pull caps and draw triggers, - to call names and indulge in retorts uncourteous, - in a spirit becoming the barbarian feuds of the White and Red roses. The Catholic Question and Reform Bill begat "haters," such as even Dr. Johnson might have pronounced "good;" while banners of orange and green still emulate, in the sister kingdom, the exciting influence of the Bianchi e Neri of the factions of the Middle Ages. Yet how pale and vapid appears even the bitterest of these antagonisms, compared with the party-spirit engendered by the deep-seated injuries of civil war! - To stir up the soul of man into genuine partisanship, his pecuniary interests must be affected. The loss of a ministerial salary, administering to the daily cake of life rather than to its daily bread, is scarcely worth bringing into comparison with the tribulation of having a fair house razed to the ground, or blazing to the sky, - woods hacked down, - farms ravaged, - nay, perhaps the dear ones of our heart given up to slaughter before our eyes. Such are the injuries which create heroes and patriots; such the losses which, in England´s olden time, set the lances of York and Lancaster in rest; or, at a later period, stimulated the remnant of chivalry to oppose those roundhead Puritans, whom the spirit moved to plunder and slaughter their fellow-countrymen in the abused name of the Lord! It is not, however, in the hour of strife that the force of party hatred roots itself strongest in the heart. 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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