George Iii As Man Monarch And Statesman Classic Reprint

Author : Henry Brougham
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ISBN 13 : 9781333021658
Total Pages : 420 pages
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Download or read book Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III written by Henry Brougham and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III: To Which Is Added, Remarks on Party, and an Appendix But, while this is admitted to render the attempt dimenii, it may not be found to make it hopeless. At any rate we are placed in a choice of evils. A postpone ment till the day when there should be no possibility of passion or prejudice shad ing the path of the historian, may extinguish the recollections, also, which alone can give value to his narrative. The transfer of the work to more strangers, who can be animated by no feeling of a personal kind, leaves it in hands, if not alto gether incapable of performing it satisfactorily, at least incomparably inferior in the power of giving vivid likenesses of contemporary statesmen. At the very least, these portraitures may be regarded as materials for history, if not worthy of being called historical themselves; and future penmen may work upon them with the benefit of contemporary testimony as to facts, though free from the bias which may have in uenced the conclusions. The author can only affirm, and this he does most conscientiously, that he has ever felt under a sacred obligation to pursue the truth of his resemblances without either exaggeration or concealment; that be has written, or endeavoured to write, as if he had lived in a remote age or country from those whose rulers be has endeavoured to describe and that if any prejudices or predilections have operated upon his mind, they have been unknown to him self. He is quite aware that some may consider this as a very equivocal test of his impartiality, if they do not rather see in it an additional symptom of blind pre possession. But he thinks the praise bestowed upon known political adversaries, and the disapproval, admitted to be just, of conduct frequently held by the party for whose services to the cause of freedom he is most grateful, will be taken as some evidence of general impartiality, though it may not suffice to exempt him from the charge of having sometimes unwarily fallen into the snares that beset the path of whoever would write contemporary annals. 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."