An Autobiographical Sketch of My Life
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from An Autobiographical Sketch of My Life: And Also Some of the Addresses Which I Have Made on Special Occasions and Which Are Supposed to Be of Local Interest in the County in Which I Have Lived During All the Years of My Manhood "As for man his days are as grass; as a flower of the field he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it and it is not, and the place thereof shall know it no more." No rational man or woman desires to pass away and be soon forgotten by those who still live. Often living men and women provide for the erection of monuments to perpetuate their memory when they have ceased to live. They also build monuments to perpetuate the memory of those who have preceded them to the grave. Biographical sketches and books are written and published as a protest against an entrance into the shadows of oblivion. Portraits are painted; likenesses are engraved and printed. Photographs are taken and multiplied to aid memory in holding back from the misty regions of things forgotten, the history, the form and features, and even the thought of those whose biographies are printed, whose portraits are painted and whose photographic pictures are taken. Again, there are those who, realizing the uncertainty, and unreliability of much of the biographical history that is written, write for themselves an autobiography to he left as a memorial of their life history. Of this number I am one. At the age of eighty-two I retired from practice as a lawyer that I might enjoy the rest and quiet that I had fairly earned by more than half a century of close application to the duties and obligations that came to me as a lawyer and as a citizen. The autobiographical sketch that I shall write will be a short one. 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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