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Excerpt from The Building of the Empire, the Story of England's Growth From Elizabeth to Victoria, Vol. 1 of 2 In writing a book like the present, one is so overwhelmed with the wealth of material that it is difficult at times to know what to put in and what to leave out; conscious, too, it may be, that the selected incident or event is not always the best of its kind, or that something important may have been omitted. However, in the space at my disposal, I have endeavoured faithfully to present the story of the growth and development of the Empire from the moment when England, having been finally shut off from dominion on the Continent of Europe, began gradually, and at first with indifferent success, to grasp empire beyond the wider seas, impelled mainly by the blind instinct to be doing, coupled with an indomitable energy that could not be satisfied with mere existence. 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.