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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: received any such bribe; and in the very month, seemingly, in which
that list was written--10th March, 1579--Buchanan had given a proof
to the world that he was not likely to be bribed or bought, by
publishing a book, as offensive probably to Queen Elizabeth as it
was to his own royal pupil; namely, his famous "De Jure Regni apud
Scotos," the very primer, according to many great thinkers, of
constitutional liberty. He dedicates that book to King James, "not
only as his monitor, but also as an importunate and bold exactor,
which in these his tender and flexible years may conduct him in
safety past the rocks of flattery." He has complimented James
already on his abhorrence of flattery, "his inclination far above
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