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An Answer To The Misrepresentations Contained In An Article On The Life Of Clarendon In No CXXIV Of The Quarterly Review - Softcover

Thomas Henry Lister

 
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An Answer To The Misrepresentations Contained In An Article On The Life Of Clarendon In No CXXIV Of The Quarterly Review by Thomas Henry Lister presents a detailed polemic defending Lister's Life of Clarendon against a scathing critique published in the Quarterly Review. The work argues that the reviewer relies on misprints, selective quotations, and unfounded insinuations to undermine the authority of Clarendon and of the author’s broader historical project. Lister contends that genuine evidence comes from primary sources and Clarendon’s own histories, and he accuses the reviewer of suppressing context and misreading dates, persons, and events. The volume defends his account of figures such as Charles I, Henrietta Maria, Rupert, and Montreuil, and it challenges the reviewer’s claims of inaccuracy and partiality as unfair and ill-founded. It thus functions both as a defense of a traditional narrative of the English Civil War and as a critique of what the author sees as sophistical historiography. The prose is combative and meticulous, documenting instances where the reviewer allegedly garbled quotes and misrepresented sources.

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