Excerpt from Cardinal WolseyThere is little that is directly ennobling in the con templation of such a career. It may be doubted if the career of any practical statesman can be a really en nobling study if we have all its activity recorded in detail. At the best it tells us of much which seems disingenuous if not dishonest - much in which nobility of aim or the complexity of affairs has to be urged in extenuation of shifty words and ambiguous actions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.