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The Greville Memoirs. A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King William IV.

By: Richard Henry Stoddard,Charles Greville

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The Greville Memoirs. A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King William IV.

By: Richard Henry Stoddard,Charles Greville

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385395127

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The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1860 (Complete)

By: Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville

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The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1860 (Complete)

By: Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville

When the first portion of the Memoirs of the late Mr. Charles Greville, consisting of a Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King William IV., was given to the world in the autumn of the year 1874, it was intimated that the continuation of the work was reserved for future publication. Those volumes included the record of events which Mr. Greville had noted in his Diary from the year 1818 to the accession of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in the year 1837, a period of nineteen years. As they were published in 1874, an interval of thirty-seven years had elapsed between the latest event recorded in them and the date at which they appeared. The reigns of George IV. and William IV. already belonged to the history of the past, and accordingly I did not conceive it to be my duty to suppress or qualify any of the statements or opinions of the Author on public men or public events. I am still of opinion that this was the right course for a person charged with the publication of these manuscripts to pursue. I have seen it stated that the first edition of these Journals contains passages which have been suppressed in the later editions: but this is an error. The first edition contained a good many mistakes, which were subsequently pointed out by criticism, or discovered and corrected. Two or three sentences relating to private individuals were omitted, but nothing which concerns public personages or public events has been withdrawn. Eight and forty years have now elapsed since the date at which the narrative contained in the former volumes was suspended, and I am led by several considerations to the opinion that the time has arrived when it may be resumed. We are divided by a long interval from the administrations of Lord Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, and Lord John Russell, and, with a very small number of exceptions, no one survives who sat in the Cabinets of those statesmen. Nearly half a century has elapsed since the occurrence of the events recorded in the earlier pages of these volumes, and in a few months from the publication of them, the nation and the empire may celebrate with just enthusiasm the jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria. Those who have had the good fortune to witness this long series of events, and to take any part in them, may well desire to leave behind them some record of a period, unexampled in the annals of Great Britain and of the world for an almost unbroken continuance of progress, prosperity, liberty, and peace. It is not too soon to glean in the records of the time those fugitive impressions which will one day be the materials of history. To us, veterans of the century, life is in the past, and we look back with unfading interest on the generations that have passed away.

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Library of Alexandria

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1465613749

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The Greville Memoirs

A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV, King William IV and Queen Victoria

By: Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville

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A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV, King William IV and Queen Victoria

By: Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville

These fascinating and revealing political and social diaries cover English history from the Regency to the Crimean War.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108030149

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9781108030144

The Greville Memoirs (Second Part): a Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria

From 1837-1852

By: Charles C F Greville Esq,Charles Greville

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The Greville Memoirs (Second Part): a Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria

From 1837-1852

By: Charles C F Greville Esq,Charles Greville

The incidents and opinions which will be found in these volumes derive their chief value from the fact that they are recorded by a bystander and spectator, who was not, and did not aspire to be, an actor in the occurrences he witnessed, but who lived on terms of intimacy with many of the most active politicians of his times, in both the leading parties in the State, although he strictly belonged to neither of them, and was wholly indifferent to mere party interests. Mr. Greville himself, in communicating a portion of [xiii] his manuscripts to one of his friends, wrote of them in the following terms: - You will find the greater part political, not often narrative; mostly allusions and comments on passing events, the details of which were not notorious and accessible; some miscellanea of a different description, personal, social, official; you will find public characters freely, flippantly perhaps, and frequently very severely dealt with; in some cases you will be surprised to see my opinions of certain men, some of whom, in many respects, I may perhaps think differently of now. Gibbon said of certain Pagan philosophers, that 'their lives were spent in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.' I cannot boast of having passed my life in the practice of virtue, but I may venture to say that I have always pursued truth; and you will see evidence of the efforts I have made to get at it, and to sum up conflicting statements of facts with a sort of judicial impartiality

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1482720906

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9781482720907

The Greville Memoirs

Vol. 1

By: Charles C. F. Greville

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The Greville Memoirs

Vol. 1

By: Charles C. F. Greville

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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338522571X

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The Spenser Encyclopedia

By: Albert Charles Hamilton

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The Spenser Encyclopedia

By: Albert Charles Hamilton

A reference book for scholarship on Edmund Spenser offering a detailed, literary guide to his life, works and influence. Over 700 entries by 422 contributors, an index and extensive bibliography.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802079237

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The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel

John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life

By: Charles J. Shields

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The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel

John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life

By: Charles J. Shields

This biography by the New York Times best-selling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee traces the life of National Book Award-winning novelist John Williams, author of the cult classic novel Stoner.

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University of Texas Press

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1477320105

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Theresa Marchmont; Or, the Maid of Honour, A Tale

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By: Charles Gore

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Theresa Marchmont; Or, the Maid of Honour, A Tale

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By: Charles Gore

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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The Greville Memoirs. A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King William IV.

The Greville Memoirs. A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King William IV.

The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1860 (Complete)

The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1860 (Complete)

The Greville Memoirs

The Greville Memoirs

The Greville Memoirs (Second Part): a Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria

The Greville Memoirs (Second Part): a Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria

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The Greville Memoirs

The Spenser Encyclopedia

The Spenser Encyclopedia

The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel

The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel

Theresa Marchmont; Or, the Maid of Honour, A Tale

Theresa Marchmont; Or, the Maid of Honour, A Tale

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