Excerpt from Shaftesbury (the First Earl) This exhausts the scanty list of Shaftesbury's apolo gists. His enemies are legion - Burnet, in his His tory Temple, in his Memoirs Roger North, in his Examen Dryden, in satire; Butler, 'in burlesque these are only the best known of his contemporary as sailants. In our own time Macaulay has made him the subject of one of his most vigorous studies in black'; and Lord Campbell has dedicated to him the most unfair and inexact biography of the most inexact and unfair of biographers. 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.