Memorial, Vol. 8

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Excerpt from Memorial, Vol. 8: Edition of Collected Works of W. J Fox The festivities and splendours of the Coronation week may be regarded with at least comparative complacency. They were not, like the thanksgivings and rejoicings and illuminations which many of us remember, the commemoration of victories achieved with the wholesale destruction of human life, the celebration, by acts of debauchery, of the accomplishment of deeds of bloodshed: their character was generally as much raised above the grossness which formerly attended public festivities in this country, as their occasion was more innocent, peaceful, and becoming. A better spirit seems, by the advance of intelligence and the spread of just principles, to have been diffused throughout the numerous classes of the community, giving a more rational character to enjoyment, and elevating its nature and its influence, as the course of events in this instance has elevated its occasion. 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.