A Short History of the British Empire: From May 1792, to the Close of the Year 1793 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The History which I have undertaken the arduous task of writing, is interesting to the Public, in proportion as the events of it involve the internal peace, energy, and welfare of this Country. The general good of the State is the common point to which all ministers, of all times, and in all circumstances, have always pretended to direct their different systems of measures; but there has been, within these last twenty months, such a variety of events, such contrariety of judgment, such singularity of public measures, that the mind is nearly overset in tracing the origin, or in calculating the consequences of them. No just conception can be formed, no fair opinion can be adopted, no profitable inference can be drawn from any, even of the leading facts, if taken singly, and considered upon the naked grounds of their insulated merits. The whole train of operations must be collected into one view, and each link of the chain examined with scrupulous, but unbiassed severity. The plot of the piece is not so new, as the winding up of the catastrophe threatens to be alarming. The general utility, then of tracing events to their causes, of viewing them in their immediate effects, and following them through their remote operations, becomes, in the present. period, interesting to the country beyond measure or precedent.
It has been reserved for the punishment of the present generation, to undergo the fatal experiment of reducing the theory of modern philosophy into practice.
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The History which I have undertaken the arduous task of writing, is interesting to the Public, in proportion as the events of it involve the internal peace, energy, and welfare of this Country. The general good of the State is the common point to which all ministers, of all times, and in all circumstances, have always pretended to direct their different systems of measures; but there has been, within these last twenty months, such a variety of events, such contrariety of judgment, such singularity of public measures, that the mind is nearly overset in tracing the origin, or in calculating the consequences of them. No just conception can be formed, no fair opinion can be adopted, no profitable inference can be drawn from any, even of the leading facts, if taken singly, and considered upon the naked grounds of their insulated merits. The whole train of operations must be collected into one view, and each link of the chain examined with scrupulous, but unbiassed severity. The plot of the piece is not so new, as the winding up of the catastrophe threatens to be alarming. The general utility, then of tracing events to their causes, of viewing them in their immediate effects, and following them through their remote operations, becomes, in the present. period, interesting to the country beyond measure or precedent.
It has been reserved for the punishment of the present generation, to undergo the fatal experiment of reducing the theory of modern philosophy into practice.
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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.
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- Publication date2020
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- ISBN 13 9781330453773
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- Number of pages260
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