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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

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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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290

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CreateSpace

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1482720906

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9781482720907

Three British Revolutions

1641, 1688, 1776

By: John Greville Agard Pocock

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Three British Revolutions

1641, 1688, 1776

By: John Greville Agard Pocock

In this collection of essays, a group of distinguished American and British historians explores the relations between the American Revolution and its predecessors, the Puritan Revolution of 1641 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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484

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Princeton University Press

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1400856477

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9781400856473

From Sapper to Spitfire Spy

The WWII Biography of David Greville-Heygate DFC

By: Sally-Anne Greville Heygate

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From Sapper to Spitfire Spy

The WWII Biography of David Greville-Heygate DFC

By: Sally-Anne Greville Heygate

David Greville-Heygate was one of the few men who served in both the army and the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but it was in the sky that he really earned his stripes. Stalking the skies flying photo-reconnaissance missions with No. 16 Squadron over Northern France, he was to win the illustrious and highly coveted Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). Another highlight saw him in action in the skies above the French coastline in preparation for the D-Day landings, taking photographs that would provide the allies with essential intelligence upon which to base their plans. Based in Holland in December 1944, David flew armed recces with No.168 Squadron then transferred to No.2 Squadron where he reported on troop movements behind German lines. During the course of a dynamic and eventful career, he flew a wide variety of iconic wartime aircraft including Lysanders, Mustangs, Typhoons and Spitfires in England, the Netherlands and Germany.Although there have been many stories about the Battle of Britain there has been less published about the life of a photo reconnaissance pilot during this time. David's thrilling exploits in the sky and the part he played within the context of the wider war are enlivened here to great effect by his daughter, Sally-Anne Greville Heygate, herself a professional photographer. Using snippets from diary entries, letters, logbooks, squadron records and other documents, she has managed to construct an engaging history of a talented photo-reconnaissance pilot and the war in which he fought.

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414

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Casemate Publishers

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1473843898

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9781473843899

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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370

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3385395127

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9783385395121

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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The Greville Memoirs

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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463

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Cambridge University Press

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1108030114

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9781108030113

The Greville Memoirs

Vol. 3

By: Charles C. F. Greville

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The Greville Memoirs

Vol. 3

By: Charles C. F. Greville

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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445

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3385225671

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9783385225671

Virtue, Commerce, and History

Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century

By: John Greville Agard Pocock

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Virtue, Commerce, and History

Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century

By: John Greville Agard Pocock

Chiefly essays originally published between 1976 and 1982.

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336

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Cambridge University Press

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0521276608

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9780521276603

Barbarism and Religion: Volume 3, The First Decline and Fall

By: J. G. A. Pocock

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Barbarism and Religion: Volume 3, The First Decline and Fall

By: J. G. A. Pocock

Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians, challenging the notion of any one 'Enlightenment' and positing instead a plurality of enlightenments, of which the English was one. The first two volumes of Barbarism and Religion were warmly and widely reviewed, and won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society. In this third volume in the sequence, The First Decline and Fall, John Pocock offers an historical introduction to the first fourteen chapters of Gibbon's great work, recounting the end of the classical civilisation Gibbon and his readers knew so much better than the worlds that followed.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521672333

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9780521672337

The Machiavellian Moment

Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition

By: John Greville Agard Pocock

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The Machiavellian Moment

Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition

By: John Greville Agard Pocock

Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. Pocock shows that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the moment in which the republic confronts the problem of its own instability in time, which Pocock calls the "Machiavellian moment." After examining this problem in the works of Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Giannotti, Pocock turns to the revival of republican ideology in Puritan England and in Revolutionary and Federalist America. He argues that the American Revolution can be considered the last great act of civic humanism of the Renaissance and he relates the origins of modern historicism to the clash between civic, Christian, and commercial values in eighteenth-century thought. This Princeton Classics edition of The Machiavellian Moment features a new introduction by Richard Whatmore.

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Princeton University Press

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1400883512

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9781400883516

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

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Three British Revolutions

Three British Revolutions

From Sapper to Spitfire Spy

From Sapper to Spitfire Spy

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

The Greville Memoirs

The Greville Memoirs

The Greville Memoirs

Virtue, Commerce, and History

Virtue, Commerce, and History

Barbarism and Religion: Volume 3, The First Decline and Fall

Barbarism and Religion: Volume 3, The First Decline and Fall

The Machiavellian Moment

The Machiavellian Moment

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