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Excerpt from Lives of Sir Matthew Hale and John Earl of Rochester Few pieces of biography are so interesting as the Memoirs of Sir Matthew Hale and the Earl of Rochester. Their lives form a striking contrast, and are admirably calcu lated to enforce the lessons of the moralist. In Hale, we contemplate a man rising from obscurity to distinction by the exertion of his own talents; digriifying by his virtues theelevated station which he attained; and from a firm reliance on the truths of Revela tion, closing a long and honourable life with out regret for the past, or fears for the fu ture. In Rochester, a person born to the highest honours and possessed of a splendid fortune, disgracing the one and squandering the other, by a career of uninterrupted vice a professed atheist, and the scofi'er at every thing that is sacred and good; prostituting the finest talents to the worst purposes; and. 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."