as to be clear to the understanding of all. Its social side—the rise and progress of the people in education, and a more liberal and charitable way of thinking, is distinctly marked. All those features which worked together for a better understanding between government and governed, and gradually led up (among other things) to the emancipation of the Catholics and Parliamentary reform, are chronicled as more worthy of record than the bloody triumphs of victorious generals. The fact that this Volume includes all the events that occurred between the year 1792 and the close of George the Third's long reign will give the best idea of the immense ground we cover and the mass of information in store for the reader. Not the least interesting chapter we believe will be that in which we review what happened in the reign of George III. in the departments of science, art, literature, and manufactures. This reign was peculiarly fertile in these good works; and, contrasted with the preceding, reveals a revolution which commands our heartiest sympathies and admiration as fully as that Revolution with which we open the Volume inspires us with horror and loathing.
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PREFACE.
