The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 62
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Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 62: Or Critical Journal, for October, 1835, January, 1836 The fate of Lord Bolingbroke affords a signal instance of the instability of fortune, and precariousness of fame. Few persons have experienced greater or more sudden vicissitudes. From the height of power in England, with the fairest prospects before him, he was reduced within a few months to the condition of an attainted exile. In one short year he was Secretary of State to Queen Anne, and Secretary of State to the Pretender. At his first visit to Paris, he was courted as the saviour of France - the arbiter and pacificator of Europe. During his second residence in that capital, he was constrained to avail himself of the meanest and vilest agents to obtain a clandestine intercourse with the government of a country he had rescued from destruction. His early ambition had been gratified by a rapidity of elevation beyond the ordinary lot of statesmen. His riper years were passed in penury and banishment; and when restored to competence and home, he was destined to waste the remainder of his life in ineffectual struggles to regain the station he had lost - embittered by disappointments and mortifications, which his proud and ambitious spirit was ill able to endure. After toiling for years in the service of the party he had espoused, it was hinted to him that the greatest kindness he could do them was to go back into exile, because his presence in England was an insuperable bar to their success. His varied, and on the whole unfortunate, career shows how necessary it is for public men to possess moral character, as well as ability of conduct and intellectual endowments. 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.
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