The Present State of Europe Explaining the Interests, Connections, Political and Commercial Views of Its Several Powers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Present State of Europe: Explaining the Interests, Connections, Political and Commercial Views of Its Several Powers It may be expeeted that the Foundation of this fort of Know ledge, ought to behid from the Petulal of Books relatin to the Confiitutions, Laws, and Government of the ref iv. Countries, not without an lnfight alfo into their Antiquities. But if we confider firfi how laborious as well as how tedious an Undertaki this would be; and next how ver little thole Men are, er'a'fiy fpeaking, (killed in the political nterefls of their ref 've Countries, who are bell verfed in their Laws and Con fiitntions, or deepdi read in their Records and Antiquities, we flnll very eafily difcern, thatas this Method would be in a gut meafors impraaicable; (0 allowing it to he never (0 eal'y, it wwld neverthelefs be very wide of anfwering the Purpofe. Yet I am very far from afl'erting, that it ought to be totally difi'e garded; far from it, that if a Man has Leifure, Opportu nity, and Abilities, to look into thefe Things, he will hardly have Ocmfion to complain, Bthat his T ime has bred mil-fpeot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.