Life of Sir Henry Vane the Younger, Statesman Mystic: 1613-1662. E-book. Formato PDF John Willcock   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Viscount Morley has said of History: I do not in the least want to know what happened in the past, except as it enables me to see my way more clearly through that which is happening to-day. Vane's biographer need not be afraid to have his work tried by this test, for he has to deal with many subjefis of perennial interest, and even of present-day importance. Vane himself was an ard ent democrat in politics, an apostle of religious toleration, and an advocate of the separation of Church and State. Indeed, so far from his vicws being fossilized with age, they have probably too much life and vigour for many in our own day.

A Shetland Minister of the Eighteenth Century. E-book. Formato PDF John Willcock   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In the Appendices I have given a quan tity of antiquarian details, many Of which may only be Of interest to some Of'my Shetland readers. I hope that others will not find fault with me for encumbering my pages with them, for I have acted on the sound principle expressed in the words.