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Excerpt from One Look BackSir - AS Links with the Past seem just now to be in fashion, permit me to supply two which concern my near relations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Excerpt from Sketches and SnapshotsI propose to myself in this chapter a two-fold object. I wish to trace, in the light of Queen Victoria's Letters the attitude of the Crown towards the Whig Ministers and the party who supported them, and to enquire whether Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell, Lord Palmerston, and their friends represented the historic Whiggery of the eighteenth century.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of th...

Excerpt from AfterthoughtsAt her knee, and from whose face towards the child there shone a Sweetness so angelical that it seemed to form a sort Of glory round both.That child was Constance de Rothschild, afterwards Lady Battersea.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-...

Excerpt from Malcolm Maccoll, Memoirs and CorrespondenceThe task of writing this book was undertaken at Mrs. Maccoll's request and it has been a pleasure to me thus to place on record the character and work of an old and valued friend. For the last thirty years of his life Canon maccoll honoured me With a share of his regard, and in all the principal controversies of that eventful time he and I found ourselves on the same side.About the Publis...

Excerpt from For Better? For Worse? Notes on Social ChangesI have been invited to make some comments on recent changes in society, and I obey the call, though not Without misgiving. Society in its modern ex tension is so Wide a subject that probably no one can survey more than a limited.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...

Excerpt from The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 4Here and there I have borrowed from previous writings of my own and I have done so on the ground that, when a writer has carefully chosen certain words to express his meaning, he can seldom alter them with advantage.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an imp...

Excerpt from Selected Essays on Literary SubjectsI have heard, on what seems credible authority, that an eminent scholar, who, at the present moment, occupies the Chair of English Literature at one of our Universities, began a lecture on the same subject as that on which I have the honour of addressing you to-night with these memorable words: "Strictly speaking, Charles Dickens had no humour." cannot promise you any observations of so startlin...

Excerpt from Some Threepenny BitsPrincess Lieven had a long and a remarkable career, and not all its incidents were so wholly blameless as the introduction of the Christmas Tree.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the w...

Excerpt from The Spirit of EnglandA few years ago we believed the world had become too civilized for war, and the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park was to be the inauguration of a new era. Battles, bloody as Napoleon's, are now the familiar tale of every day, and the arts which have made greatest progress are the arts of destruction. - J. A. Froude.To find myself writing about war is an immense surprise. I entered public life at twenty-seven, and ev...

Excerpt from Politics and Personalities: With Other EssaysI was lately addressing an audience of working men on the ethical aspects of war. After the address there was a discussion, and the question which excited the keenest debate was: "What are we to do with the Kaiser when the war is over?" In vain I reminded my friends of the adage about catching your hare before you cook him. Some - a few - were for St. Helena, the great majority were for...

Excerpt from Mr. Gladstone's Religious Development: A Paper Read in Christ Church, May 5, 1899At eleven, William Gladstone went to Eton. The Public Schools of England, even after seventy years of strenuous reform, leave a good deal' to be desired in the way of faith and morals and what they were in the first quarter of the century we know from contemporary records. Public Schools are the seats and nurseries of vice, was written in a religious ...

Excerpt from The Woodhouse CorrespondenceAlgernon Woodhouse was born the second son, but, owin g to his eldest brother's death he succeeded to the family estates in Norfolk and Yorkshire.His younger brother, George, took Holy Orders, married, and died early, leaving a family. Of the sisters, two remained unmarried, while the third, who married Mr. Andrew Murray (see Burke's Peerage.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thous...

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