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Excerpt from Portraits of the SeventiesThese inconvenient obligations of confidence pressed themselves on my mind when Mr. Fisher Unwin asked me to write a book about people eminent in the Seventies and Eighties, as a sequel to Mr. Justin mccarthy's Portraits of the Sixties. I felt, and now feel, that in this kind of writing one goes perilously near the edge of what is confidential, but, on full con sideration of the case, I decided to make th...

I remember ten Prime Ministers, and I know an eleventh. Some have passed beyond earshot of our criticism, but some remain, pale and ineffectual ghosts of former greatness, yet still touched by that human infirmity which prefers praise to blame. It will behove me to walk warily when I reach the present day, but, in dealing with figures which are already historical, one's judgments may be comparatively untrammelled. I trace my paternal ancestry ...

Excerpt from Sydney SmithAs soon as Sydney Smith died, his widow began to accumulate material for her husband's biography. She did not live to see the work accomplished, but she enjoined in her will that some record of his life should be written. The duty was undertaken by his daughter, Saba Lady Holland, who in 1855 published A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. To this memoir was subjoined a volume of extracts from his letters, compiled by...

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Excerpt from An Onlookers¿ Note-BookThe clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.14 collections and recollections.It was his constant endeavour to keep that eye clear and bright. He never willingly suffered its vision to be obscured either by the glamour of an idealized past, or by the inevitable mistiness of the unknown future. And yet there were certain phenomena...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...