SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE: THE STANHOPE ESSAY,

Excerpt from Sir William Temple: The Stanhope Essay, 1908 OF the famous names which are lastingly inscribed on the long and glorious roll of British statesmen, some will invite us to conjure up pictures of men who claim an additional meed of admiration because, in their climb to the Temple of Fame, they had to conquer great difficulties and to dare great dangers. Other names, again, will be represented by figures which stand out less clearly in the historical pageant because they to some extent failed to surmount the adverse conditions of their times, or because they were overshadowed by their contemporaries. 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.