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Excerpt from English History Illustrated From Original Sources: 1660-1715 Fhe period covered by this volume is one of the most mportant and not the least interesting in the history )f the forces that have contributed to produce the England of our day, and, indeed, the British Empire. 5 interest lies, not so much in the fact that it is full stirring events and attractive personalities, but that was essentially an age of transition. Every age is hat, of course; but transition is more pre-eminen-tly he characteristic of some special periods, which as it were, the watershed between two differ civilizations and their mental characteristics. 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.