Excerpt from The Peerage of England, Vol. 3: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of England Man, that ihould behave at this wickedate, in Common Life, and take fuch Liberties upon ordinary Occafions, would hazard to be call'd very hard Names; and make but a wretched Figure among his Neighbours. But Political Dq'amation, it feems, may be rightly calculated for an Hour, and levell'd only to ferve a prefent Turn 5 without any Regard to Confequences, and the Shame and Contempt that mud, in a very little time, recoil upon the Authors and Spreaders of the Calumny. 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.