Selections From the Writings of the Late E. B. Watermeyer
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Excerpt from Selections From the Writings of the Late E. B. Watermeyer: With a Brief Sketch of His Life The object of this volume, the Reader will at once perceive, is not to add another to the multitudinous class of memoirs, nor would it have been within the power of the Editor to collect and publish all that might have been worth recording of what the Author in the course of his life, so prematurely cut short, had written or spoken. The work must be judged of as an attempt to place within the reach of his numerous friends and his fellow-countrymen a consecutive collection of his chief published writings on Colonial History, researches upon which his heart had been set, which it had been his purpose to extend, and which, it is believed, there exists a general desire to have preserved. Only such selections could be made as appeared most interesting to the general reader, in order to make room for the poems which follow, since the volum had to be limited to such a size as alone made the publication practicable. Apart from the impracticability of reproducing all the Author´s historical writings, literary reviews, forensic speeches and correspondence, within the circumscribed limits of such a volume as this, there would have been a further difficulty insuperable from the fact of the materials for it being wholly wanting. He was too real, too earnest a worker to have given himself to the task of preserving - to have taken up his time with keeping copies of - his manifold public writings, much less of his correspondence. While the former could have been extracted from the periodicals in which they appeared, the latter are not to be so traced. He was emphatically an extemporaneous speaker. The newspapers of the day reproduced in a more or less perfect form his speeches at the Bar and in Parliament, and subsequently his charges and judgments delivered from the Bench, but neither of these nor of his private correspondence had he preserved any copies or memoranda. Only a few of the poems have already been published; these being chiefly translation from the German, and also more or less free translation from Latin authors. 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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