It is written with simplicity of expression, very rare in that age, and with a regard to truth.

It would not perhaps be too much to affirm, that it is among the best historical productions which have yet been composed by any Englishman.

It is well known that the English have not much excelled in that kind of literature.

He died in 1623, aged seventy-three years.
We shall mention the king himself at the end of these English writers; because that is his place, when considered as an author.

It may safely be affirmed, that the mediocrity of James's talents in literature, joined to the great change in national taste, is one cause of that contempt under which his memory labors, and which is often carried by party writers to a great extreme.