Society in London (Classic Reprint)
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Society in London Every one knows enough of the government of England to be aware that, in name a monarchy, it is, in reality, a republic. The Sovereign is a fact, but it is rather the idea than the fact of sovereignty which dominates the English mind. British loyalty is divided between a woman and an abstraction. the woman is the Queen; the abstraction is the power she exercises. The thirty or forty millions of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom accept the monarchy; have not the slightest wish to get rid of it; honor the Monarch as their Church Cateehism bids them do; would reprobate any attacks upon the royal person; would resent disrespectful language about her; would even risk their lives to save hers. Yet of these millions, not one per cent. - not one in a thousand - has ever seen the Queen, knows of her except from the newspapers, has any notion of what she is like except from pictures, or of the manner in which she passes her days. Imagine it possible that the Queen should die, and her death be kept a profound secret: imagine that the same announcements appeared as appear now in the "Court Circular;" imagine finally that it were practicable to perpetuate this delusion, and that the conspirators kept good faith among themselves: imagine this to be the case, and all would go on as it goes on now. 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.
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