Excerpt from History of England, Vol. 5: In the Lives of Englishmen IT is the just remark of an eminent critic, that no part Of our do mestic history, since the Reformation; is so imperfectly known to us as the interval between the accession Of the house of Hanover, and the death of George II. And yet the age which lay between these two events was not the least important one in English history. It indeed presented nothing like the religious agitations of the sixteenth century and its civil wars - Of which it had two - were utterly insignificant In comparison with those of the preceding century, yet it was an age of political activity, abounding in cabals and intrigues, and remarkable for the establishment and consolidation of that internal system of go vernment, by which the affairs of this country have been conducted almost up to the present hour. 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.