s the law of
nations, it is only the nations exempts from foreign
ambassador's own person that is jurisdiction the ambassador alone,
exempted from (4) _any authority_ yet in practice the exemption has
(47 _a_) _but his master's that extended to the whole of the
sends him_, yet the practice has ambassador's suite.
gone in favour of _all that the
ambassador owned_ (47 _a_) _to Successful abroad, Cromwell was no
belong to him_. (41) (44) Cromwell less successful at home in
showed his good (11) selecting able and worthy men for
_understanding_ in nothing more public duties, especially for the
than in seeking[32] out capable courts of law. In nothing did he
and worthy men for all employments, show more clearly his great
but most particularly for the natural insight, and nothing
courts of law, (43) (30 _a_) contributed more to his popularity.
(10 _a_) which gave a general
satisfaction.

FOOTNOTES:

[28] The meaning is "_his_, and therefore _the nation's_, ministers."
There is a kind of antithesis between "the nation" and "the nation's
ministers."

[29] No instance has yet been mentioned.

[30] The thought that is implied, and should be expressed, by the
words, is this: "Cromwell's favourite ally was a free country."

[31] The remarks about Christina are a digression, and Burnet is now
returning to the respect in which Cromwell was held by foreign
nations.

[32] He not only sought, but sought successfully. That "find" is not
necessarily implied by "seek out" seems proved by the use of the word
in the Authorized Version, 2 Tim. ii. 17: "He _sought_ me _out_ very
diligently, and _found_ me."

BISHOP BUTLER.

The principal faults in this style are (_a_) a vague use of pronouns
(5), and sometimes (_b_) the use of a phrase, where a word would be
enough (47 _a_).

ORIGINAL VERSION. PARALLEL VERSION.

Some persons, (15) _upon Some persons avowedly reject all
pretence[33] of the sufficiency of revelation as[34]essentially
the light of Nature_, avowedly incredible and necessarily
reject all revelation as, _in its_ fictitious, on the ground that the
(47 _a_) _very notion_, light of Nature is in itself
incredible, _and what_ (47 _a_) sufficient. And assuredly, had the
_must be fictitious_. And indeed light of Natu