Excerpt from The Life of Cardinal Wolsey: With Several Copper Plates Now if it be fit difiicult in certain Cafi's to difcover the true Cha rollers of Men, in a publick Scene of Life, with whom we have been doth fa di/guife human Aflions, that the Vice, when applied to them, are not only con ransferred: If the very Senfi'r of Men are fit that the mofl vile and infamous Fails are repte fented to publick View under bright and favourable Colours, while thofe founded on real Virtue and Merit are openly traduced If the Rage and Artifice of Fail/on have Power to transform Perfons and Things, in juch a Manner, that even they, who look on, are not always able to dz]: cover the Il/ufion, or have fome common Interdi in promoting it lej} Matter of Surpri/i, if we cannot readily come at the true bier of a Perfon, jince who/i Birth above two hundred Tears have pajfid 5 and whom, almaji all our Hylorians, however oppojite and di vided on other Accounts, have yet agreed to ajperji and depretiate. It happens, notwithjlanding, there are remaining certain authentick Monu ments, relating to him, which do not depend on the Credit of either Party5 and, e/pecially, in the Archives of the Univerfity of Oxford, which will give him a greater Name in future Ages, than if Statues had been crefled to him, thro' all Parts of the Kingdom, or a thoufand difi'erent Medals been flruck in Honour to his Memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.