Memoirs Of His Own Life Sir James Melville Of Halhill

Author : James Melville
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260796882
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Sir James Melville of Halhill written by James Melville and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sir James Melville of Halhill: Memoirs of His Own Life Nor did he find it necessary to seek a clue in their religious preferences to the rabbling politics of the Scottish nobility. They were simply at the old game of one party forcing the occasion to enlarge their power and so their property and status, while the other, as the probable victims, defended what they had. It was not religion that differenced the supporters of the exiled Queen Mary from those of the boy-king, not even, he says, the cause represented by either figure, but their own partialities of ambition, greediness and vengeance. One main reason for all this was that the Scottish nobility was too numerous for the country yet James VI. Kept adding to their number in which Melville warned him that he was not well-advised. In Scotland, indeed, as in other countries, religion had become so entangled with politics, in the modern sense, that no clear separation was possible. Melville had experienced the same com plication elsewhere, in France for example. He had served under rulers of different shades of religious opinion, most of whom were ready to shift or adapt their convictions when a political end was to be served. It was not unity of religion but loyalty to the sovereign that was being made the test of citizenship. The monarch was becom'ng hedged with divinity. Melville reminds Mary that Princes are called divine persons, and quoted for James VI. The passage from Plutarch, that the Prince is God's placeholder. It is characteristic, however, that he makes the relation a reason for fuller responsibility; it is not merely a natural fact independent of the use to which it is put. 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.