But, if he meant no more than this, his work would ill deserve the title of an History.

That he generally tells truths, and founds his most material assertions upon fact, will, I think be found very evident.

But there is room to suspect, that, while he tells no more than the truth, he does not tell the whole truth.

However, he makes it very clear, that the Queen's allies, especially our worthy friends the Dutch, were much to blame for the now generally condemned conduct of the Queen, with regard to the prosecution of the war and the bringing about the peace_.
_The authors drawings of characters are confessedly partial: for he tells us openly, he means not to give characters entire, but such parts of each man's particular passions, acquirements, and habits, as he was most likely to transfer into his political schemes.

What writing, what sentence, what character, can stand this torture ?--What extreme perversion may not, let me say, does not, this produce?
Yet thus does he choose to treat all men, that were not favourers of the latest measures of the Queen, when the best that has been said for her, shows no more than that she was blindfolded and held in leading-strings by her ministers_.
_He does not spare a man, confessed by all the world to have discharged the duties of his function like a soldier, like an hero.