Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age but the plates are bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> And yet it might be urged that no age was more unlike our own. Then to be a landowner was to be everything. Then the poor bowed to the rich and all to authority. Then to think of a foreigner was to pity him for the misfortune of his birth. Then the nation as a whole lived in the country and “as they had almost all the conveniences of life within themselves they seldom visited towns in search of superfluity.” Our general impression indeed is of a time of somewhat placid solidity and comfort when deep feelings whether of chivalry or hatred were not often in evidence when few were in a hurry and no one was in deadly earnest-an age perhaps fitly summed up for us in Smollett’s portrait of Queen Anne: She was in her person of the middle size well proportioned: her aspect more comely than majestic: her voice clear her presence engaging: her capacity naturally good but not much cultivated by learning: she was seriously attached to the Church of England pious just charitable compassionate: one of the most unblemished sovereigns that ever sat upon the throne of England. (MP)