The Rise of Great Families
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Burke, Bernard) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Rise of Great Families: Other Essays, and Stories "Wherever the distinction of birth is allowed to form a superior order in the State, education and example should always, and will often, produce among them a sentiment and propriety of conduct, which is guarded from dishonour by their own and the public esteem. If we read of some illustrious line so ancient that it has no beginning, so worthy that it ought to have no end, we sympathise in its various fortunes; nor can we blame the generous enthusiasm, or even the harmless vanity, of those who are allied to the honours of its name." - Gibbon. Popular notion prevails that it would be an invidious task to write the history of the rise of our eminent Houses, that the consequent investigation would lead to the discovery of the obscure source of their greatness, that the details would detract from the estimate in which the nobility is held, that the subject had better be left unexamined, and that, "where ignorance is bliss, ´tis folly to be wise." 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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