Excerpt from Political Progress in the Nineteenth Century A more ambitious work followed. AS Maurice had influenced his earlier years, so Burke dominated his later development. For the character and writings Of the great Statesman Mr. Macknight conceived an enthusiasm, which ended only with his life. In The History Of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke, Of which the three volumes were published between 1856 and 1860, he produced a work of great ability, and abiding value. For many years it remained the stand ard authority, and at the time of his death the author was engaged in completing a new edition of it, and an annotated edition of Burke's works, to which several years of patient research had been devoted. 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.