Excerpt from Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III: To Which Is Added, Remarks on Party, and an Appendix Tau alhlrs of men, the interests and the history of nations, the relative value of limitations as discovered by their actual working, the merits of different sys in of policy as tried by their effects, are all very imperfectly examined without a thorough knowledge of the individuals who administered the systems and pre sided over the management of the public concerns. The history of empires is. Indeed, the history of hen, not only of the nominal rulers of the people, but of all the leading persons who exerted a sensible influence over the destinies of their inflow-caesium, whether the traces of that influence survived themselves, or, as in the ease of lesser minds, their power was confined to their own times. 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.