Excerpt from Recollections of the Life of the Late Right Honorable Charles James Fox: Exhibiting a Faithful Account of the Most Remarkable Events of His Political Career, and a Delineation of His Character as a Statesman, Senator,& Man of Fashion; Comprehending Numerous Anecdotes of His Public and Private Life; And an Accurate Description To all those who wish to form their judgment of a man, not by the party to which he belongs, but from his actions and the motives that produced them - who, not dazzled by vice, however splen did the garb she may assume, still dare to call her by her real name - who estimate the merit of a man not by empty and unmeaning professions, with whatever apparent sincerity they may be delivered, but by the good he has actually per formed, the benefits he has conferred, either by precept or example, on the community of which he is a member the author presumes to recom mend his labours. Indifferent alike to the censure and praises of others, it is the approbation of such alone that he is solicitous to obtain. Should he be so fortunate as to gain their suffrages, he will sit down contented with having thus accomplished the highest object of his honest ambition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.