Contributions To The Edinburgh Review Four Volumes Complete In One By Francis Jeffrey

Author : Francis Jeffrey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265572818
Total Pages : 780 pages
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Download or read book Contributions to the Edinburgh Review (Classic Reprint) written by Francis Jeffrey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review I wrote the first article in the first Number of the Review in October 1802 z - end my lut'contribution to it, in October 1840! N is along period, to have persevered in - or in ill doing! But I was by no means equally alert tn the service during all the i mediate time. I was sole Editor, from 1803 It late in 1829; and during that period wasno doubt a large and regnlnrcontributor. In that last year however, [received the m or heingelected, bymybrethren or the Bar, to theofliceof Deanot' the Fe of catesz - When it immediately occurred to me that it was not quite fitting that the official head of a pest Law Corporation should continue to be the conductor of what might be fairly enough resented as, in many respects, a Part Journal: and I consequently withdrew ct once and together from the management - w 'eh has ever since been in such lands, as can have left those who take an interest in its success, no cause to t my retirement. But I should not have acted up to the spirit of this nation, nor {elm I had redo-med thepledgeot'neutmlitylmeanttogiveb it, it'i notatthesametim ceased to contribute to, or to concern mysel in an way, with the conduct or of the Review. I wrote nothing for it, according? For a considerable time ww: and during the whole fourteen years that ve since elapsed, have Four pers to that work-none of them on political subjects. Icessed, in reality to he s contri tor, in 1829. 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.