Excerpt from A Lecture on the Origin and General Influences of the Wars of the French Revolution: Being the Conclusion of a Course of Lectures on Modern History, Delivered in the University of Dublin The Lecture now published is the con elusion of a series of eighty-five, succes sively delivered in eleven years. This course embraced the whole of modern history, commencing at the destruction of the western empire, in the latter part of the fifth century of the Christian aera and extending to the present time. 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.