8 

 THE WORKS 



OF 



LORD BOLINGBROKE. 



COMPLETE. 



With a Life, prepared expressly for this Edition. 



CONTAINING 



RECENT INFORMATION RELATIVE TO HIS PER- 

 SONAL AND POLITICAL CHARACTER, 



SELECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES. 



In Four Volumes 8vo., printed on large type and fine paper. 



Lord Brougham's Remarks. 



"Few men whose public life was so short, have filled a 

 greater space in the eyes of the world during his own times, 

 than Lord Bolingbroke, or left behind them a more brilliant 

 reputation. Not more than fifteen years elapsed between his 

 first coming into parliament and his attainder; during not 

 more than ten of these years was he brought before the public 

 in the course of its proceedings; and yet, as a statesman and 

 an orator, his name ranks among the most famous in our his- 

 tory, independently of the brilliant literary reputation which 

 places him among the best classics of our Augustan Age." 



" Of all the public characters who have acted a prominent 

 part in English history during the last two hundred years, 

 there is probably no statesman who takes a stronger hold 

 upon the imagination than Henry St. John, Lord Boling- 

 broke. To those altogether ignorant of English politics, his 

 name is still familiar by its connexion with English litera- 

 ture. The friend and correspondent of Pope and Swift the 

 writer of some of the finest essays in the English language 

 his name continually presents itself in the literature and lite- 

 rary history of Queen Anne's reign. * * * * With Bo- 

 lingbroke as a writer, this age has principally to do. To the 

 rare excellence of his style, there is abundant testimony from 

 critics of all tastes. It is adorned and elegant, and rhetori- 

 cally correct; but this is its least merit. It is nervous and 

 masculine, and flows onward like a river. There is a living 

 and life-giving energy, which imparts interest to even old 

 and uninteresting topics, and carries the reader majestically 

 along the rushing tide of the author's thoughts. * * * * 

 Messrs. Carey & Hart deserve the thanks of all lovers of 

 good standard literature for their beautiful editions of Boling- 

 broke." Boston Notion. 



