Little Jennings and Fighting Dick Talbot, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Little Jennings and Fighting Dick Talbot, Vol. 2: A Life of the Duke and Duchess of TyrconnelIt is Of course impossible to follow the course Of such tortuous intrigues with only the very small portion of the evidence before us which survives in the Clarendon correspondence. It seems Clear, how ever, that in order to persuade King James to get rid Of Clarendon some Of the leading Irish army Officers did lend themselves to a scheme to misrepresent him, or at least to make accusations against him which he had no Opportunity of meeting. That this was discreditable alike to them and to their Chief cannot be denied, and our sympathy must be with the injured man, however weak and ineffectual he was. Therefore it is useless to attempt to defend Tyrconnel's methods of Obtaining the post which he coveted. In his whole hearted devotion to the Object Of his life he was troubled with little scruple as to the means whereby he removed Obstacles. TO those who pretended that self-enrich ment was his sole Object it was possible to deduce particular baseness from this. But if it was a fact, as it must appear to the unprejudiced student of his career, that from the age of thirty at least he kept one great end constantly in View which cannot be called selfish, and that for it he risked both life and fortune more than once, then at least there is some palliation, if an inadequate one, for his carelessness as to his methods.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.