Excerpt from The North Carolina Booklet, Vol. 10: Great Events in North Carolina History It has been said that the whole period of Charles Second could be rewritten from Pepy's Diary were all else lost, but incompletely written were it not for the portraits by Sir Peter Lely and Sir Godfrey Kneller. One look at the por trait of that shiftless, sensuous Monarch's features and we breathe the atmosphere of those degenerate times. We long to see! A name is but a name, a face we never forget. Abstractions even we are compelled to visualize. In the Sargent room of the Boston Library is a fresco of the Trinity - three Old men with long, gray whiskers, wrapt under one cloak. 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.