THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND, VOL. 1: FROM THE

Excerpt from The History of England, Vol. 1: From the Accession of Iames I. To the Elevation of the House of Hanover Lives attacked the formidable prewar. Lions of the Stewart family, and feit fap the banners of Liberty againża tyranny which had been efiabliihed for a feries of more than one hundred and fifty years a; and this by the ex-o ertion of faculties, which, if compared twith the barren produce of modern times, appear 'more than human. Negleé't is not the only crime commit eted agamft thefe {acted charac'ters Party'prejudice, and the more deteft able principle of private interefi; have painted the memoirs of paf't times in 4ft) 'falfe a light, that it 1s with difficul ty we can trace features, which; if ~jui't1y defcribed, would exalt the wor ethics of/this country beyond the fame of any fet of men, which the annals of Other nations can at, any one period. 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.