The Story-Life of Washington, Vol. 1
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Whipple, Wayne) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Story-Life of Washington, Vol. 1: A Life-History in Five Hundred True Stories, Selected From Original Sources and Fitted Together in Order It has long been the fashion among those writing lives of Washington to state that their readers had never until then enjoyed the privilege of becoming acquainted with the real George Washington. Nearly every recent biographer has announced that he was now taking down the wooden image called "Washington" from its high pedestal and reviving it, somewhat as the statue of Galatea became a living woman before the astonished gaze of Pygmalion, the sculptor who had fashioned her beautiful form in marble. These resuscitations have been going on for a generation, and several of the so-called "true" Washingtons bear hardly a family resemblance to one another, so it is reasonable to infer that some of them, at least, have as little likeness to the great original himself. The variations in the many portraitures are doubtless due, not to the different colors of the eyes of the several painters, but to their varying points of view. Each of these pictures is good, as far as a single full-length portrait can go. It is the intention here to avail ourselves of hundreds of these and focus them together like a composite photograph, or rather, from all sides and angles of view, make a solid, living, moving picture of George Washington and his wonderful career. The well-rounded result shall speak for himself, as far as possible, from his journals, letters, addresses and reported conversations, which have been systematically recorded and carefully preserved, apparently, for the special benefit of the reader of The Story-Life of Washington. 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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