The Works of George Meredith (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Works of George Meredith (Classic Reprint) written by George Meredith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of George Meredith Then the people, rather ashamed, abused the Press for unreasonably disturbing them. The press attacked old Panic and stripped her naked. Panic, with a desolate scream, arraigned the parliamentary Opposi tion for having inflated her to serve base party pur poses. The Opposition challenged the allegations of Government, pointed to the trimness of army and navy during its term of office, and proclaimed itself watch-dog of the country, which is at all events an office of a kind. Hereupon the ambassador of yonder ireful soldiery let fall a word, saying, by the faith of his Master, there was no necessity for watch-dogs to bark; an ardent and a reverent army had but fancied its beloved chosen Chief insulted; the Chief and chosen held them in; he, despite obloquy, discerned our merits and esteemed us. 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.