The Crown And The Constitution Reply Of Verax To The Quarterly Review Seven Letters Reprinted From The Manchester Weekly Times

Author : Verax Verax
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332140223
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Crown and the Constitution written by Verax Verax and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Crown and the Constitution: Reply of "Verax" To the Quarterly Review; Seven Letters Reprinted From the "Manchester Weekly Times" These northern districts. I never dreamed that the country mouse would visit town. It never occurred to me that my note of warning would find its loudest echo in the metro polis. How could such a thought have crossed my mind P The Life of the Prince Consort had passed through the ordeal of London criticism, and been treated, with one or two exceptions, to a shower of compliments. The accom plished politicians who preside over the daily organs of opinion had received it in court attire, and written their eulogies with rose water. I knew the high repute these gentlemen had won as the vigilant guardians of our liberties. I knew how implicitly they were trusted by the public, and how well they deserved the trust so that if I had thought about the matter I must have felt how visionary any perils would be likely to appear which had managed to escape their skilled and searching glance. Hence the con clusion would have seemed but too obvious that any mis givings I had felt after reading Mr. Theodore Martin's third volume were nothing but the result of a needless brooding over phenomena which a provincial mind was naturally unfit to grasp, and that they would never have been felt at all if I had happened to possess a larger knowledge of afi'airs, such as is the professional inheritance of political writers who live within three miles of Blackfriars or the Strand. My letters were addressed to a familiar audience, who, if not more on a level with my claims, are at least in the habit of treating them with indulgence, and kit was not till they had heard all that I had to say, and had shown that they were stirred by it, that I began to think of sub. 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.