The State of Britain

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Excerpt from The State of Britain: Abroad and at Home in the Eventful Year, 1808 Agesilaus, the renowned Spartan monarch, is said to have been so fully sensible of his own natural deformity, lameness, that he entreated his countrymen never to erect any statues to his honour, however his exploits might be handed down to posterity through the medium of history. With equal propriety, may the present inhabitants of these realms forbid the chronologist and the biographer to transmit a statement of modern occurrences to succeeding generations, lest the ancient glory of England be extenuated, if not entirely done away, by the relation of those melancholy events which each revolving season brings to light. Various and astonishing are the vicissitudes of life: states and empires rise and fall with a rapidity that almost exceeds belief, and ocular demonstration can, alone, convince mankind of the frailty of human power. 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.