[HALIFAX, GEORGE SAVILE, Marquess of]. The Character of a Trimmer...By the Honourable Sir W.C. London: Printed in the Year 1688. Small 4to, nineteenth century vellum; slight worming to lower margins of first 8 leaves (not affecting text); cloth and board slipcase. Later edition. Wing H-296; PMM 162 (this edition).

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[HALIFAX, GEORGE SAVILE, Marquess of]. The Character of a Trimmer...By the Honourable Sir W.C. London: Printed in the Year 1688. Small 4to, nineteenth century vellum; slight worming to lower margins of first 8 leaves (not affecting text); cloth and board slipcase. Later edition. Wing H-296; PMM 162 (this edition).

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"Halifax's policy has come to be the essence of constitutional democracy. Though his firm grasp of high moral generalizations is evident, often anticipating the broad concepts of Burke, he based himself on the Aristotelian precept that politics is the art of the possible: 'men should live in some competent state of freedom,' he wrote. His actions had a lasting effect on the politics of the time, and more lastingly on the government of the country: his writings provide a classic exposition of the empirical character of the British Constitution."--PMM 162.