Pains and Penalties
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Pains and Penalties: The Defence of Queen Caroline, a Play in Four Acts Those who defend a bad cause have to defend it blindly: otherwise its life would be short. Driven from one false argument to another, they still find sufficiency in the last that is left to them. It is the thing, not the reasonableness of the thing that they are defending. Last year this play of "Pains and Penalties" (excepting only the first scene of Act IV, which I have since incorporated for the sake of dramatic completeness) was privately and confidentially condemned by the Lord Chamberlain: for some months the author was given no reason for the condemnation which he could make public. Yet before a word of the play was printed defenders of the censorship supported the Lord Chamberlain´s decision with blind and headlong enthusiasm, and industriously set themselves to assert that their beloved official must be in the right. The author had dared to pass unfavourable comments on the character of King George IV; and hostile reference upon the stage to the great-grand-uncle of our present Sovereign was declared incompatible with respect for the institutions of monarchy. 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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