SERIES OF LETTERS FROM A NOBLEMAN TO HIS SON. NEW EDITION, CONTINUED TO THE DEATH OF WILLIAM IV. OF ENGLAND. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: LONGMAN, REES, & Co.; T. CADELL; J. RICHARDSON; J. M. RICHARDSON; BALDWIN ADVERTISEMENT. A PERSUASION of the utility of a concise History of Modern Europe induced the author to undertake this work; and he has had the satisfaction to find his opinion justified by that of the public. The epistolary form was chosen as best calculated, in tracing the concatenation of events, for uniting the accuracy of the chronologer with the entertainment of the memorialist : and the character of a nobleman and a father was assumed, in order to give greater weight to the moral and political maxims, and to entitle the writer to offer, without seeming to dictate to the world, such Reflections on Life and Manners, as are supposed more immediately to belong to the higher orders of society. To each volume of this Edition is prefixed a chronological table of contents; and to facilitate reference, an index is subjoined to the work. |