Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of the Right Honorable R. B. Sheridan, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of the Right Honorable R. B. Sheridan, Vol. 1: With a Particular Account of His Family and Connexions Biography is of so much importance in developing the characters of public persons, and unfolding the secret spring of complicated events, that any apology for offering to the world memoirs of those who have figured with eminence in the walks of literature, or the sphere of politics, might seem to be altogether superfluous. Yet common courtesy requires some account of a writer´s motives and authorities, that it may appear how far his narrative is entitled to attention on the ground of impartiality, or to confidence in the validity of what it relates. Of the present performance it is perhaps sufficient to say, that it originated in no sinister views, or in the wish to advocate any particular interests. Superior to the influence of party, the author has been careful to represent actions as he found them, to discover the causes out of which they sprang, and to ascertain the real principles by which the agents in them were severally governed. The reader need hardly be told that the last thirty years have produced more changes of tremendous import than any period of similar extent in the annals of Europe. It is, therefore, evident that the memoirs of individuals who have borne an active part in any of these scenes must, when properly executed, prove entertaining to the present age, and beneficial to posterity, by shewing how easily communities may be thrown into disorder, on what slender movements the fate of empires may depend, and of what flimsy materials political combinations are frequently com posed. 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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