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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ast. III.?The Life of Sir William Petty. By Lord Edmond Fitzmaukice. Two vols. 8vo. London: 1895. S valuable and instructive work is another good con- tribution to letters made by the author of the ' Life of ' Lord Shelburne.' The House of Lansdowne, sprung from the commingling blood of a remarkable specimen of the great middle class of England and of the Norman Geral- dines of Desmond, has, for more than a century, held a high place in the State, and been eminent in the national annals. The first Marquis, the son-in-law of Carteret and the colleague of Pitt, in his youthful prime, was perhaps the chief negotiator of the Peace of 1783, and, questionable as may have been some passages of his career, was one of the first of the economic statesmen who made the faith of Adam Smith prevail in our councils. Many still alive remember the third Marquis, the colleague of Grey, Melbourne, Russell, Palmerston, in along succession of Whig Ministries, a pillar of the State during the Reform era, an illustrious patron of art and learning. The present head of the family has already filled offices of the highest dignity with notable success, and has proved himself worthy of his best predecessors: his sagacity, his wisdom, his strong common- sense have marked him out as a coming Liberal chief when true Liberalism shall again be supreme in this country. The subject of this memoir, nevertheless, whose eventful life and chequered career Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice has placed before ns, was, on the whole, probably the most conspicuous figure in the stem of worthies of which he was a parent. Sir William Petty is chiefly known in England as a founder of the Royal Society, as the father of statistical research, as one of those adventurers in the domain of experimental science who made the close of the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217281089 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217281087 |
| Weight | 1.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.02 In |
| List Price | $31.45 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 458 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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