Tuesday, August 07, 2007

QOTD

In late 1688, William, Prince of Orange, upon landing in Devon to drive out Catholic James II and make himself (along with William's wife, James's daughter Mary) Protestant king and queen of England, in Michael Barone's Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers at 157-58 (2007):
To the Church of England clergyman Burnet, the Calvinist and usually humorless William said, 'Well, Doctor, what do you think of predestination now?'
BTW, though not well edited, I recommend Barone's book.

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