The Works of Lord Bolingbroke

by Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount

• ISBN13: 9780898753837
• ISBN10: 089875383X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

This second volume contains Bolingbroke's Dissertation upon Parties and his letters on the study and use of history.

Author Biography

Henry Saint John, Lord Bolingbroke, was an English statesman, orator and writer. A Jacobite, he spend much of life in exile and wrote influential political treaties, notably The Idea of a Patriot King (1749)

Table of Contents

A Dissertation upon Parties	p. 5
Letters on the Study and Use of History
	p. 173
Concerning the true use and advantages of it	p. 176
An objection against the utility of History removed
The false and true aims of those who study it
Of the History of the first ages; with reflections on the state of Ancient History, profane and sacred
That there is in History sufficient authenticity to render it useful, notwithstanding all objections to the contrary
Of the method and due restrictions to be observed in the study of it
The great use of History, properly so called, as distinguished from the writings of mere annalists and antiquaries
Greek and Roman Historians
Some idea of a Complete History
Farther cautions to be observed in this study; and the regulation of it, according to the different professions and situations of men: above all, the use to be made of it
By Divines
By those who are called to the service of their country
From what period Modern History is peculiarly useful to the service of our country, viz: From the end of the fifteenth century to the present. The division of this into three particular periods: in order to a sketch of the History and state of Europe from that time	p. 238
A sketch of the state and History of Europe, from the Pyrenean treaty in one thousand six hundred and fifty-nine, to the year one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight	p. 253
The same subject continued from the year one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight	p. 276
A Plan for a General History of Europe	p. 335
Of the true use of Retirement and Study	p. 339
A Letter on the Spirit of Patriotism	p. 352
The idea of a Patriot King	p. 372
Of the State of Parties at the Accession of King George the First	p. 430
Some Reflections on the present state of the Nation, principally with regard to her taxes and her debts, and on the causes and consequences of them	p. 439
The substance of some Letters, written originally in French, about the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty, to M. De Pouilly	p. 462
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