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History of Great Britain (Volume 4); From the Revolution, 1688, to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Amiens, 1802 in Twelve Volumes - Brossura
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1805. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... in the morning. Recovering his senses after a Book xir. short interval, he desired, with a faint voice, 1760 that his daughter the princess Amelia might be sent for; but before her arrival he expired, in the seventy-seventh year of his age, and the thirty-fourth of his reign. During this long period, he had experienced many vicissitudes of fortune; but he lived to see himself the most successful of all the English monarchs. And, after the dark and lowering aspect which his political horizon occasionally exhibited, his sun set at last in a golden cloud. The character of this monarch it is not easy nigcharaceither to mistake or to misrepresent. Endowed by nature with an understanding by no means comprehensive, he had taken little pains to improve and expand his original powers by intellectual cultivation. Equally a stranger to learning and the arts, he saw the rapid increase of both under his reign, without contributing in the remotest degree to accelerate that progression by any mode of encouragement, or even bestowing, probably, a single thought on the means of their advancement. Inheriting all the political prejudices of his father--prejudices originating in a partiality natural and pardonable---he was never able to extend his views beyond the adjustment of the Germanic balance of power; and resting with unsuspicious satis Book xn. faction in that system, into which he had been ^WX) early initiated, he never rose even to the conception of that simple, dignified, and impartial conduct, which it is equally the honor and interest of Great Britain to maintain in all the complicated contests of the continental states. It is curious to remark, that the grand objects of the two continental wars of this reign were diametrically opposite: in the first, England sought the ag...
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