'
The career of the Long Parliament supports this judgment: of it 'it may
be said, I think, with not greater severity than truth, that scarce two
or three public acts of justice, humanity, or generosity, and very few of
political wisdom and courage, are recorded of them from their quarrel
with the King to their expulsion by Cromwell': (_Const. Hist_. ch. x:
Part i).
_The chrisom_; Name for the white cloth in which babes were veiled
immediately after Baptism.
_Artist in plots_; See Ranke (viii: 5) for Pym's skilful use of a
supposed plot, (the main element in which was known by himself to be
untrue), in older to terrify the House and ensure the destruction of
Stafford; and Hallam (ch. ix).--Admiration of Pym may be taken as a proof
that a historian is ignorant of, or faithless to, the fundamental
principles of the Constitution:--as the worship of Cromwell is decisive
against any man's love of liberty, whatever his professions.
_O King_; 'Cromwell, like so many other usurpers, felt his position too
precarious, or his vanity ungratified, without the name which mankind
have agreed to worship.' The conversations recorded by Whitelock are
conclusive on this point: 'and, though compelled to decline the crown, he
undoubtedly did not lose sight of the object for the short remainder of
his life' (_Hallam_).
_The sky by a veil_; See _Appendix_ D.
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