Chapter I: Front Matter

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The Greville Memoirs
(second part)

A JOURNAL OF THE REIGN
of
QUEEN VICTORIA

from 1837 to 1852

By the Late
CHARLES C. F. GREVILLE, Esq.
Clerk of the Council

IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. I.

LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1885

'PLERAQUE EORUM, QUAE RETULI QUAEQUE REFERAM, PARVA
FORSITAN ET LEVIA MEMORATU VIDERI, NON NESCIUS SUM; SED
NEMO ANNALES NOSTROS CUM SCRIPTURA EORUM CONTENDERIT, QUI
VETERES POPULI ROMANI RES COMPOSUERE. INGENTIA ILLI
BELLA, EXPUGNATIONES URBIUM, FUSOS CAPTOSQUE REGES, AUT,
SI QUANDO AD INTERNA PRAEVERTERENT, DISCORDIAS CONSULUM
ADVERSUM TRIBUNOS, AGRARIAS FRUMENTARIASQUE LEGES, PLEBIS
ET OPTIMATIUM CERTAMINA, LIBERO EGRESSU MEMORABANT. NOBIS
IN ARTO ET INGLORIUS LABOR.... NON TAMEN SINE USU FUERIT,
INTROSPICERE ILLA, PRIMO ADSPECTU LEVIA, EX QUIS MAGNARUM
SAEPE RERUM MOTUS ORIUNTUR.'
TACITUS, _Ann. iv. cap._ 32.