It is sufficient to say that the one effort founded upon the principles of Bolingbroke ended in disaster; and that his own last reflections express a bitter disillusion at the result of the event which he looked to as the inauguration of the golden age.
Laski reflects on the failure of Bolingbroke's political efforts and his subsequent disillusionment.
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