The Life of His Royal Highness, the Prince Consort, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

They furnish, moreover, a triumphant vindication of the Prince from the obloquy and misrepresentation which duringthe same period he was compelled to undergo in silence. I could not, therefore, reconcile it to ray duty as his biographer to withhold the evidence of the part, so valuable to Your Majesty, and therefore to England, which he played during the great struggle of the Crimean War. In doing this, I can scarcely hope to have escaped the risk of being charged with passing upon occasion from the sphere of the biographer into that of the historian. But, in truth, the Prince slife being, as it was, engrossed with the great events of a time which has already become historical, this was a risk which must perforce be run by his biographer, however much he might feel himself fettered by the proximity of the events, and by a proper regard for the feelings of such actors upon the political stage as may still survive, or of the representatives of those who have passed away. In any case, I trust it will be as clear to all who may read this volume, as it is to myself, that in all the Prince sdealings with men, and with the questions great and small, on which his unsleeping spirit was evermore employed, to be just, to be considerate, to look beyond the ignorant present into the seeds of time, to hold at bay the passions and prejudices, by which judgment is clouded, and action turned awry, was the condition of mind to which he never ceased to aspire.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format o