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Excerpt from Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale, Taken From Facts, and From the Manners of the Irish Squires, Before the Year 1782 Vi. P F A Q E: facts relative to the domestic lives, not onlyof the great and good, but even of the worthless and insignifi cant, since it is only by a comparison of their actual happiness or misery in the {privacy of domestic life, that we can form a just estimate of the real reward of virtue, or the real punishment of vice, That the great are not as happy as they seem, that the external cir cumstances of fortune and rank do not Q constitute felicity, is asserted by every moralist: the historian can seldom, consistently withhisdignity, pause to. Illustrate this truth; it is therefore to thef'refacea' 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.