The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ortant person in a great ceremonial;at seven he sat on the throne through fiery debates of thePeers, and was sometimes called upon for the final Avord ;at nine he attended with great decorum and interest thesittings in the trial for witchcraft of Joan of Arc. Whenhe should have been playing childish games his youngmind was weighing problems which perplexed the other hand, he was under asystem of stern ^^upilage. There ispathetic humour in the royal licenseto Dame Alice Butler to chastise usreasonably from time to time, and alater tuto
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . ortant person in a great ceremonial;at seven he sat on the throne through fiery debates of thePeers, and was sometimes called upon for the final Avord ;at nine he attended with great decorum and interest thesittings in the trial for witchcraft of Joan of Arc. Whenhe should have been playing childish games his youngmind was weighing problems which perplexed the other hand, he was under asystem of stern ^^upilage. There ispathetic humour in the royal licenseto Dame Alice Butler to chastise usreasonably from time to time, and alater tutor, the Earl of Warwick, hadsimilar leave to use the rod. Henryseems never to have had the manly, ifsomewhat brutal, military training ofthe time, perhaps because he inheritedthe physical weakness of his grand-father, Henry IV. Constant espion-age, and, perhaps, the severity of histeachers, helped to make him timid and afraid of respon-sibility. But his mind was active. He was a precociousscholar, especially fond of history; sometimes he showed14. Hesky VI. 210 THE BRITISH NATION spirit and decision, but favouritism and incompetencemarked his rule, and his real virtues were the mild onesof a scholarly saint. His life was innocent and his speechrestrained; Forsooth and forsooth and By St. Johnwere his most emphatic expressions. He watched anx-
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