The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. 31 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. 31 The inimitable Thackeray, in his satire on the Four Georges, asks, of the last of the bad lot, "What good in knowing that he actually did marry Mrs. Fitzherbert according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church; that her marriage settlements have been seen in London; that the names of the witnesses to her marriage are known?" The satirist, after a fashion, unconsciously becomes an object for satire himself, if he set down such a question in all seriousness. There is no higher good in all the world than the vindication of truth with regard to a woman´s fair fame. As there is no blacker crime than the larceny of that most precious of all gems, so there can be nothing more grateful to the good than the restoration of what has suffered from the guilty connivance or the poisonous whisper of interested plotters. Thackeray´s picture of George the Fourth is so complete that one must think that no additional touch of any other artist could improve it in point of hideousness. Every toothsome trait of villainy is seen in the portrait of the "first gentleman of Europe." But the hand of the writer of the "Greville Memoirs" gave the finishing stroke that few would deem needful. Under the date of March 31, 1837, the writer makes an entry which brands George as the arch-scoundrel of his time or any other time. 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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