A History of the Four Georges, Kings of England: Containing Personal Incidents of Their Lives, Public Events of Their Reigns, and Biographical Notices ... Courtiers, and Favorites (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from A History of the Four Georges, Kings of England: Containing Personal Incidents of Their Lives, Public Events of Their Reigns, and Biographical Notices of Their Chief Ministers, Courtiers, and Favorites

The period during which the Four Georges wielded the sceptre of the British empire, may justly be regarded as the Augustan era of British history. At no other period has the nation produced so many eminent statesmen, orators, generals, philosophers, poets, and savans; nor have public events of equal magnitude and interest occurred at any other epoch of the nation's progress. If there were few features of the personal character of those sovereigns which rendered them worthy of notice, there never existed rulers in any age or country who derived so brilliant a reflected lustre from the colossal minds by whom they were surrounded; from the thrilling transactions in which they were compelled to act a part; and from the imposing eminence on which the accident of birth had placed them.

Hitherto little knowledge of this era and of its events could be obtained by the general reader, except at very considerable expense, and by the perusal of many ponderous volumes. As this process does not comport with the convenience or the leisure of a large portion of the reading public, it seemed to the writer that a work which narrated the chief incidents of the public history and private lives of the Four Georges, in a compact and convenient compass, might be useful, by filling up an unoccupied niche in that department of our literature.

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