Neville Chamberlain
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 677
ISBN-13: 9780521894012
Subjects: Biography: historical; British & Irish history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; History: American; History; History - General History; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain
First sentence: 'This is the excellent foppery of the world', cries Edmund in King Lear, after the Duke of Gloucester has attributed all manner of calamities to eclipses, 'that, when we are sick in fortune-often the surfeit of our own behaviour-we make guilty of our disasters the Sun, the Moon and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.