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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260595799
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (957 download)
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Download or read book The Character of Queen Victoria (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Character of Queen Victoria The natural order of history; and it is when it has done its worst, and the solitude is most blank around a royal coffin, that we begin to see what the robes and pageantry concealed. Was it a human being at all? Was it worthy of the idolatry it awakened? How much of the worship was paid to a woman, and how much to a fetish? In the ut terances of a loyal and justly emotional press, we have heard the last and least-measured accents of a praise that was too closely allied with pain and grief to analyse or to discriminate. But reason tells us that this cannot last. It tells us that Queen Victoria must, in her turn, take her place among all the other great preceding figures, who are judged not as what they seemed to be, but as what they were. It appears to us that the time has come to begin to abandon the note of purely indis criminate praise, and to put even this revered per sonage into the crucible of criticism - to endeav our, in other words, to note, without any blind or sycophantic laudation, what were the elements, and what the evolution of her character. We can try to do so with the more perfect serenity, seeing that by such treatment it has scarcely anything to. 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.