Excerpt from The World and His Wife, or a Person of Consequence, Vol. 3 of 3: A Photographic Novel"First, of panegyric. Every man is honourable who is so by law, custom, or title. The public are better judges of what is honourable than private men. The virtues.of great men, like those of plants, are inherent in them, whether they are exerted or not, and the more strongly they are inherent, the less they are exerted, as a man is the more rich the less he spends." - Martinus Scriblerus on the Art of sinking in Poetry.It is impossible to live in the nineteenth century and not like Swift, "adore the wisdom of that Gothic institution which made parliaments annual, and be confident that our liberty can never be placed on a firm foundation, until that ancient law is restored among us.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.