Author: Charles C. F. GrevillePublisher:
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Languages : en
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The (Charles C.F.) Greville Memoirs
Author: Charles C. F. GrevilleThe Greville Memoirs (Second Part): a Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria
Author: Charles C F Greville EsqPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781482720907
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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
The Greville Memoirs
Author: Charles C. F. GrevillePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385225671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
The Greville Memoirs. A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. and King William IV.
Author: Richard Henry StoddardPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385395135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Seattle, 1893
Author: Seattle Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Catalogue of Valuable, Rare & Curious Second Hand Books in Nearly Every Branch of American, English & Foreign Literature
Author: George J. CoombesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385309743
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700
Author: Robert HoePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books in English Later Than 1700 Forming a Portion of the Library of Robert Hoe
Author: Robert HoePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel
Author: Michael FlavinPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1837641722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This text explores the theme of gambling in a range of 19th-century English novels. It examines the representation of gambling in the novels, the role that gambling played in the lives of the novelists, and gambling in the novels within the context of the development of Victorian society.