Miscellanies (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from MiscellaniesThe eighteenth century in England does not lack its historians and painters who have treated their great subject sometimes after a pre-raphaelite fashion, and sometimes after the manner of the impressionists. It has been loaded with abuse by picturesque historians and high-¿ying divines and to mantic poets. Its political franchise was certainly restricted, while its civil list was un duly extended. It white-washed its churches, and even sought to rationalise its religion.No less emancipated an intelligence than Mark Pattison's pronounced the first half of the eighteenth century to be an age desti tute of faith and earnestness - an age whose poetry was without romance, whose philos ophy was without insight, and whose public men were without character.' Harsh words indeed, but not lightly written.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.