Lord Bolingbroke

The Works of Lord Bolingbroke - Works of Lord Bolingbroke

Volume II of a four volume set

This second volume contains Bolingbroke?s Dissertation upon Parties and his letters on the study and use of history.

Any biographer might well be forgiven for a considerable touch of the lues Boswelliana in the case of Bolingbroke. The man is a fascinating, dazzling figure; and , needing no extraneous charm, it has yet been given him by the Journal to Stella of that other great, arresting figure, Swift.

His life and works, including thoughts on politics, political parties, England, Europe, the King, Government, philosophy, history and its use in education, monotheism, theology and religion, power, freedom, and essays on human knowledge, all in these four volumes.

Henry Saint John, Lord Bolingbroke, was an English statesman, orator and writer. A Jacobite, he spend much of life in exile and wrote influential political treaties, notably The Idea of a Patriot King (1749).