The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for This Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character

by Henry Saint John

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528 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2001

About the author

Henry Saint John, first viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman, orator, and a Jacobite, spent much life in exile and wrote influential political treatises, notably The Idea of a Patriot King in 1749.

This Tory philosopher flourished.

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Reviews

[Daniel]

Dude clearly was a suave political operator, buddy buds with Lord Chesterfield, and that shows through his writing style.

Unfortunately the topic of writing itself is real drudgery. All polemics and armchair philosophy. You can almost imagine the guy sitting in exile in a nice room fitted out with baroque furniture with too much time on his hands.