Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second (Vol. 1 of 3)
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second (Vol. 1 of 3)
By Horace Walpole
16 Feb, 2020
THE AUTHOR’S POSTSCRIPT TO THESE MEMOIRS. The reader has now seen these Memoirs; and though some who know mankind, and the various follies, faults, and virtues, that are blended in our imperfect natures, may smile with me at this free relation of w
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THE AUTHOR’S POSTSCRIPT TO THESE MEMOIRS. The reader has now seen these Memoirs; and though some who know mankind, and the various follies, faults, and virtues, that are blended in our imperfect natures, may smile with me at this free relation of what I have seen and known, yet I am aware that more will be offended at the liberty I have taken in painting men as they are; and that many, from private connexions of party and family, will dislike meeting such unflattered portraits of their heroes or their relations. Yet this, I fear, must always be the case in any history written impartially by an eye witness: and eyewitnesses have been generally allowed the properest historians. Indeed, the editor of Chalon’s History of France was of a different opinion and lamented that Thuanus, who has obliged the world with so complete and so ample a history of his own times, should have confined himself to write nothing but what passed in his own time, and comme sous ses propres yeux Less
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