Trip 354 of 4150 collection book5
The English of former days alike renowned for generosity and valour treatedbook51 those hostile princes whose fate it was to wear their chains with such delicacy of benevolence as even dispelled the horrors of captivity but their posterity of this refined age feel no compunction at seeing an unfortunate monarch their former friend ally and partisan languish amidst the miseries of a loathsome jail for a paltry debt contracted in their own service. I say this generals disgrace was not so remarkable as that of Theodore because he was the servant of Justinian consequently his fortune depended upon the nod of that emperor whereas the other actually possessed the throne of sovereignty by the best of all titles namely the unanimous election of the people over whom he reigned and attracted the eyes of all Europe by the efforts he made in breaking the bands of oppression and vindicating that liberty which is the birthright of man.... read all
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