AND HIS TIMES

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"... I have been fond of power, and as they were necessary to
that, desirous, but not fond of Riches. This circumstance, however, has
always attended my fondness of power. Since I came to think and feel
for myself, instead of judging by the judgment and acting by the spirit of
Party, I have neither valued power any further than I retained the
liberty of applying it to those purposes to which my opinion and my
sentiments led me to apply it. There has not been these thirty years a
point of time when the greatest degree of power and the highest elevation
in honour and dignity, in an administration whose conduct I disapproved
A man of this
or despised, and could not hope to alter, tempted me.
temper cannot expect long to please any Court, or any Party; and this
experience should make him content to retire from business to amusement,
and from the government of a state to the government of himself.”-
LORD BOLINGBROKE TO HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, R. KNIGHT, June 12,
1738 (B.M. Add. MS., 34196. f. 136).

"Urit enim fulgore suo qui præqravat artes
Infrà se positas: extinctus amabitur idem,"

-HORACE, EP. II. i., 13 and 14.

"A new truth will have much to do to dislodge an old error.”— BOLINGBROKE'S PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS: Essay 1.

"I suppose you only come as a spectator? And why may not one come hither as a spectator, Sir, as well as a Tatler?"-HORACE WALPOLE'S "George the Second," i. p. 34, note.

"... As to men, we see them at their whole length in history." "Of the Study of History "-BOLINGBROKE'S WORKS: Vol. viii. p. 32.

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PREFACE

BOLINGBROKE's life between 1715 and 1751 has never been
thoroughly followed. We have been fortunate enough
to have exhausted the many manuscripts in the British
Museum which bear on our subject, and to have repro-
duced in our Annendix of "Correspondence." his letters

Sichel, Walter.

Bolingbroke and his times.

London Nisbet, N. Y. Longmans 1901. 10+550 p. portrait, O. $4. A comprehensive biography of Henry St. John, 1st viscount Bolingbroke, 1678-1751, y statesman; contains much information particularly relating to Bolingbroke's early life 1 English history from 1710 to 1714, not found in the standard life by Thomas Macknight, 3, but less useful because of its poor arrangement and Tory bias. Continued in ingbroke and his times: the sequel, 1902. Note the Bolingbroke letters and corresponce. (ed.) G. Parke, 1798, 4v., and the scholarly essay by Felix Salomon "Geschichte des zten Ministeriums Königin Annas von England (1710-1714), und der englische ronfolgefrage", Gotha, 1894.

Eng. Hist. R. 17:167 (Thos. Bateson); Ath. 1901, 1:623; Nation, 73:211.

which often illustrate the back-currents of our history;
while in the two first and elsewhere are many from the
second Lady Bolingbroke. Besides these manuscript
authorities, there are many other sources of illumina-
tion :-

(1) The Letters in Grimoard to Madame de Ferriol and
Alari, which have never been placed in context or
thoroughly examined; also several allusions in his
Essai Historique.

Br 2002.943

AUG 1 1902

LIBRARY

Minot fund.

PERIOD II

MARCH 1715-DECEMBER 1751

"... I have been fond of power, and as they were necessary to that, desirous, but not fond of Riches. This circumstance, however, has always attended my fondness of power. Since I came to think and feel

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