Shaftesbury (the First Earl) (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Shaftesbury (the First Earl) For a man who found so many outspoken critics in his lifetime, Shaftesbury has met with curiously few biographers. In our own day, the fact that he was so unsparingly assailed by his contemporaries would of itself be enough to attract the literary ´whitewasher.´ But in the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth century it was otherwise. Shaftesbury was left swinging on that lofty gibbet from which Dryden had suspended him, and no man - or none with the slightest capacity for essaying the feat - ever thought of attempting to cut him down. For many years after his death his biography was represented by such catchpenny little tracts as ´Rawleigh Redivivus,´ the servile panergyric of some ultra-Protestant, Whig-and-something pamphleteer, who intersperses his thick-and-thin justification of all his hero´s actions with tirades against the followers of ´that infallible for, the Pope.´ 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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