Excerpt from The Flowers of Celebrated Travellers: Being a Selection From the Most Elegant, Entertaining and Instructive Travels I am told, made an excellent defence for him, and very forcibly remarked the essential difference between assaulting the sov e reign, and defending himself from a private attack. One of our former monarchs, said he, (christian V.) was used frequently to unbend himself amon his nobles. On these occasions, it was his custom to say, be king 18 not at ho.me' All the court1ers then behaved with the utmost freedom and familiarity, unres trained by the royal presence. When he chose to resume 'his kingly dignity, he said, 'the king 13 again at home. But what, added he, must we do now, when the king IS never at This seems more like the speech of an Englishman than a Dane, and breaths a manly and unfettered spirit. 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.