Excerpt from The World and His Wife, or a Person of Consequence, Vol. 3 of 3: A Photographic Novel For who sees not, that while such assemblies are permitted to have a longer duration, there grows up a commerce of corruption between the minister and the deputies, wherein they both find their accounts, to the manifest danger of liberty? Which traffic would neither answer the design nor expense, if Parliaments met once a-year. But the mass of mankind argue upon all things Within the narrow circle of some one prejudice; and though every stone flung either by a fact, or by an adversary, into this narrow circle may and does Widen it, they seldom, till the breath of many generations has passed over it, succeed in enlarging it sufficiently for the admission of a more uni versal current of ideas. 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.