INTRODUCTION The results I have reached by my observations and inquiries made, and from the study of the material placed before me, cannot, in consequence of the inadequateness of this material, lay claim to being fully scientific, but the present investigation may so far claim a scientific character, that I have endeavored by its means...
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The reader, who honours the following sheets, with an attentive perusal, may probably find, that though we have advanced, by wide steps, during « the last century, in the science of politics, we have still much to learn ; and that the summit can only be gained, by substituting accurate research, for delusive speculation,...
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THE immense accumulation of the Public Debts, and the depressed state of Public Credit, of the Revenue, and of the Funds, . at the close of the last War, together with the loss of several extensive and populous Colonies in North America, led some of the ablest and most experienced men in the Kingdom,...
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PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR In the year 1860 Northumberland became the county of my adoption, and very soon after my settlement I was impressed with the wide and varied field that it offered for antiquarian research. I grew deeply interested in the past records of the county, and became personally acquainted with many present day...
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PREFACE By Professor H. S Foxwell MR. POWNALL has asked me to write a few words of preface to this issue in printed form of three lectures delivered by him at the London School of Economics last February. Such a request, coming from a colleague and an old friend, it was impossible to refuse. Of...
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