Eminent British Statesmen Vol 4 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Eminent British Statesmen, Vol. 4 Tms volume completes that portion of the series which relates to the statesmen of the English commonwealth. The subjects have been selected with reference to the various stages in the struggle, from the opposition in the reign of James to the breaking out of the civil war, and thence to the execution of Charles, the usurp ation of Cromwell, and the resumption of power by the republicans on the abdication of his son. The prin cipal and greatest person who adhered to Charles has not been omitted. Four lives, out of the six, are here written in a detached shape for the first time for, though few have been able todispute the celebrated saying of bishop Warburton, that, at the period they illustrate, the spirit of liberty was at its height in this country, and its interests were conducted and supported by a set of the greatest geniuses for government that the world ever saw embarked together in one common cause, the number of those who have troubled themselves to in quire into the reason or precise value of this saying have been fewer still. It is surely a grave reproach to English political biography, that the attention so richly due to the statesmen who opposed Charles the First, in themselves the most remarkable men of any age or nation, should have been suffered to be borne away by the poorer imitators of their memorable deeds, the au thors of the imperfect settlement of 1688. 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.