Charles C. F. Greville
Published: 2015-07-16
Total Pages: 580
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Excerpt from The Greville Memoirs (Third and Concluding Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria From 1852-1860 Nor am I less grateful for the reception this publication has met with from the world, which has far surpassed the modest expecta tions of the author, and has at last conveyed to the reader a just esti mate of the integrity and ability with which these Journals were written. They hear evident marks of the changes which are wrought in a man's character and judgments by the experience of life and the course of years; and they fall naturally into the three periods or di visions of Mr. Greville's life which I was led from other causes to adopt. In the first part he appears as a man of fashion and of pleas ure, plunged, as was not inconsistent with his age and his social posi tion, in the dissipation and the amusements of the day; but he was beginning to get tired of them. In the second part he enters with all the energy of which he was capable, though shackled by his official position, upon the great political struggles of the time - the earnest advocate of peace, of moderation, of justice, and of liberal principles - regarding with a discriminating eye and with some severity ofiv preface. 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.