Volume 1

On the deaths of some eminent persons of modern times / [Henry Halford].

  • Halford, Henry, 1766-1844
Date:
1835
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Credit: On the deaths of some eminent persons of modern times / [Henry Halford]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ceive the offices of the church to which he had attached himself, and should give proofs of his dying in the Roman Catholic faith. But the King was incapable of discriminating altogether under his circumstances. Every faculty of his mind was gone. If he were a Protestant, therefore, before he was taken ill, he died a Protestant. If he had already renounced the religion of his father, he died a Roman Catholic. I pre¬ sume not to say more, than that no inference could be drawn safely of anything that im¬ plied the exercise of judgment at that late hour, under so overwhelming a seizure; and that the contest of the two parties for a triumph was as vain and unprofitable as the fight of the Grecians and Trojans for the dead body of Patroclus, Og oly'evOa Kai ev9a oXiyr} tvl EXkvov a[i(j)OTepoi HoMER. II. King William III., Prince of Orange, had