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Excerpt from Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III: To Which Is Added, Remarks on Party, and an Appendix
Tau alhlrs of men, the interests and the history of nations, the relative value of limitations as discovered by their actual working, the merits of different sys in of policy as tried by their effects, are all very imperfectly examined without a thorough knowledge of the individuals who administered the systems and pre sided over the management of the public concerns. The history of empires is. Indeed, the history of hen, not only of the nominal rulers of the people, but of all the leading persons who exerted a sensible in?uence over the destinies of their in?ow-caesium, whether the traces of that in?uence survived themselves, or, as in the ease of lesser minds, their power was confined to their own times.
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