Excerpt from Inquiry Into the Literary and Political Character of James the First
This historical trifle 1s therefore neither a hasty decision, nor a des1gned inqulry; the results gradually arose through successive periods of time, and were it worth the while, the history of my thoughts, in my own publications might be arranged in a sort of chrono logical Conviction.
I will not suffer a cowardly silence to warn me from encountering all that popular prejudice and party-feeling they oppose; and this were incompati ble with that constant search after Truth, and the independence of its character, which we may at least ex pect from the retired student.
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Isaac D'Israeli was a writer and scholar best known for his essays, his associations with other men of letters, and as the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.