Download or read book Memoirs of the Peers of England, Vol. 1 written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of the Peers of England, Vol. 1: During the Reign of James the First In a fucceeding page Dr. Birch adds, Monfieur de Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. Of Sweden will foon be upon the fame foot with Quintus Curtius, 'and only be read, likehis Henriade, for the vigour of its ftyle, and the force and beauty of imagination which animate it while the truth of his hero's character and aetions will be fought ln the' 'more languid, but more exact relation, of Mr. Nordberg. Tlie fame will in all pro bability be the fate of another French writer, Father Daniel, admired for his genius, but: too indolent for an hifiorian, who declares the frudy of State Papers to be a tail: of more fatigue than ufe; and, being fhewn in the Royal Library at Paris a vaf't collection of original manufcripts relating to the hif'tory' of France from the reign of Louis XI. Fpent a fingle hour in turning over the volumes, and then declared, that he was fully fatisfied intimating to Father T ournemine, that he did not want thefe old papers, papen er, for his hiltory; which is indeed what might be expeetcd from fuch a hand, a'mere compilation from the mo . 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."