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Excerpt from The Greville Memoirs (Third and Concluding Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria From 1852-1860
IT appears to be unnecessary and inexpedient to delay the publi cation of the last portion of these papers, which contain some record of the events occurring between the year 1852 and the close of the year 1860, a period already remote from the present time, and relat ing almost exclusively to men of. The last generationu I have little to add to the notices prefixed by me to the two preceding portions of this work, but I am grateful for the length of days Which has enabled me to complete the taskoconfided to me by Mr. Greville three and twenty years ago, and to leave behind me a record of that delightful company to which I was bound by the closest ties of intimacy and friendship. On looking back upon the first half of the present cen tury, I believe that we were too unconscious of the exceptional privi leges we enjoyed, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate the re markable gifts of the statesmen, the craters, the historians, the poets, and the Wits who shed an incomparable lustre on the politics, the literature, and the social intercourse of those years. Of these per sonages some traces are to be found in the preceding volumes and in these pages.
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IT appears to be unnecessary and inexpedient to delay the publi cation of the last portion of these papers, which contain some record of the events occurring between the year 1852 and the close of the year 1860, a period already remote from the present time, and relat ing almost exclusively to men of. The last generationu I have little to add to the notices prefixed by me to the two preceding portions of this work, but I am grateful for the length of days Which has enabled me to complete the taskoconfided to me by Mr. Greville three and twenty years ago, and to leave behind me a record of that delightful company to which I was bound by the closest ties of intimacy and friendship. On looking back upon the first half of the present cen tury, I believe that we were too unconscious of the exceptional privi leges we enjoyed, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate the re markable gifts of the statesmen, the craters, the historians, the poets, and the Wits who shed an incomparable lustre on the politics, the literature, and the social intercourse of those years. Of these per sonages some traces are to be found in the preceding volumes and in these pages.
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.
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Author(s) - Charles C. F. Greville
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ISBN - 9780666633217
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm
Page Count - 578
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