The Greville Memoirs (second Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1852Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 - Great Britain |
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... present interest in them had ex- pired . The advance of years reminds me that if this duty is to be performed at all by me , it must not be indefinitely delayed , and if any strictures are passed on the Editor of these volumes , I ...
... present interest in them had ex- pired . The advance of years reminds me that if this duty is to be performed at all by me , it must not be indefinitely delayed , and if any strictures are passed on the Editor of these volumes , I ...
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... present century . 6 Lord Clarendon died in 1674 , and the first edition of his History of the Rebellion and the Civil Wars ' was published in 1702-4 , with some alterations and omissions , which were supplied by the publication of the ...
... present century . 6 Lord Clarendon died in 1674 , and the first edition of his History of the Rebellion and the Civil Wars ' was published in 1702-4 , with some alterations and omissions , which were supplied by the publication of the ...
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... present century . And above all , Her Majesty Queen Victoria , by placing the papers of the late Prince Consort , and her own corre- spondence and journals , in the hands of Sir Theodore Martin , for the purpose of composing from the ...
... present century . And above all , Her Majesty Queen Victoria , by placing the papers of the late Prince Consort , and her own corre- spondence and journals , in the hands of Sir Theodore Martin , for the purpose of composing from the ...
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... present time , and touches events occurring during the reign of the Sovereign who still happily occupies the throne , much more reticence is required of an Editor than he felt in speaking of the two last reigns , which belong altogether ...
... present time , and touches events occurring during the reign of the Sovereign who still happily occupies the throne , much more reticence is required of an Editor than he felt in speaking of the two last reigns , which belong altogether ...
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... present time , of some passages that may more fitly be published hereafter . Accordingly , I have exercised to some extent the discretionary powers entrusted to me by the Author with these manuscripts ; and I have withheld from ...
... present time , of some passages that may more fitly be published hereafter . Accordingly , I have exercised to some extent the discretionary powers entrusted to me by the Author with these manuscripts ; and I have withheld from ...
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