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"His majesty's kingly resolutions," said the lord keeper, "are seated in the ark of his sacred breast, and it were a presumption of too high a nature for any Uzzah uncalled to touch it. Yet his Majesty is now pleased to lay by the shining Beams of Majesty, as Phœbus did to Phaeton, that the distance between Sovereignty and Subjection should not bar you of that filial freedom of Access to his Person and Counsels; only let us beware how, with the Son of Clymene, we aim not at the guiding of the Chariot, as if that were the only Testimony of Fatherly Affection; and let us remember, that though the King sometimes lays by the Beams and Rays of Majesty, he never lays by Majesty itself."
It's not a question about the references in the paragraph, but only an English question.
I don't get what the two underlined parts mean there.
What is "presumption of too high a nature"? Is it a kind of an anastrophe that is originally "a presumption of a nature that is too high"?
And if so, what would the "presumption of nature (that is) too high mean then?
I don't have any clue what the second one even means.
It seems the speaker is comparing the relationship between the king and his subjects with the one between a father and his child, but still don't get what it means.
Please help!
In case you need the context of it, the full text is available via the link below:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/64344/64344-h/64344-h.htm
It's not a question about the references in the paragraph, but only an English question.
I don't get what the two underlined parts mean there.
What is "presumption of too high a nature"? Is it a kind of an anastrophe that is originally "a presumption of a nature that is too high"?
And if so, what would the "presumption of nature (that is) too high mean then?
I don't have any clue what the second one even means.
It seems the speaker is comparing the relationship between the king and his subjects with the one between a father and his child, but still don't get what it means.
Please help!
In case you need the context of it, the full text is available via the link below:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/64344/64344-h/64344-h.htm
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