The Greville Memoirs, Vol. 1 of 3
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Excerpt from The Greville Memoirs, Vol. 1 of 3: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV. And King William IVNo one was more conscious than the Author of the incompleteness of these Journals, and of a certain rough ness, due to the impromptu character of a manuscript hastily written.down on the spur of the moment. He was more disposed to underrate their merits, as appears from his concluding remarks, than to exaggerate their im portance and it has been justly said that the severest critic of these volumes is Mr. Greville himself. But the public have judged them more favourably and if he entertained a hope that he might contribute some pages to the record of his times and the literature of his country, that hope was not altogether vain.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 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.
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