Excerpt from History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke, Vol. 3 The concluding portion of this Work was, like the pre ceding, originally intended for two volumes. The Author afterwards found that it might be completed in one, though the number of pages would necessarily exceed that of either of his former volumes. This course, With the assent of his excellent publishers, he has not hesi tated to adopt, as more advantageous to his readers than, on a system of bookmaking, a publication in two volumes of some four hundred pages each, of which the benefit must have been entirely his own. This cousi deration Will, he trusts, satisfactorily account for, the vo lume being somewhat more bulky than is generally de sirable. Having unavoidably too much matter for one volume, and perhaps scarcely enough for two, it would have been no difficult task to haye padded out a second With. An Appendix; but he thinks that he has chosen the less of two evils. 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.