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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - altersgem�sehr guter Zustand / very good condition for age - PREFACE -- The age of Anne and the commanding figure of Boling-broke will always fascinate. -- Without derogating from my predecessors, to some of whom I am indebted, I may say that the first has not been exhausted, nor the second as yet understood. -- This is an attempt to present from original sources, and with the fresh materials recently to hand, some adequate portrait of a great genius and of the crowded background in which he moved. -- Much is here exhibited for the first time. Among ther matters, St. John�s early days, his first wife�s personality, his conduct preceding his flight, the interpretation 2nd application of his many political works, the true state of parties, the full Guiscard episode, the plot of Eugene, the long labyrinth of the Utrecht negotiations, Bothmar's influence, the death-scene of Queen Anne, the parliamentary debates, and the real relations, political and social, of many prominent but unexplored figures. -- Bolingbroke�s life necessitates division. There are two persons and two periods. -- This volume embraces his whole public career and the complete reign of Queen Anne. In another I hope to delineate Bolingbroke, out of place but not out of power, in a new world of leaders and events; and to show the debt of Burke and Gibbon, as well as of Pope and Voltaire, to his thoughts, words, and style.