Life of Col. Jesse Harper of Danville, Farm-Boy, Lawyer, Editor, Author, Orator, Scholar and Reformer (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Harper, Jesse) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Life of Col. Jesse Harper of Danville, Farm-Boy, Lawyer, Editor, Author, Orator, Scholar and Reformer Real lives are lived, not written. The written life, though splendidly penned in the most glowing and thrilling rhetoric, is at best but a verbal photograph of the real life. It lacks the fire, the spirit, the living bloom and beauty and the actual personal magnetism of a great mans real life, in flesh and blood, with a mighty, working heart and brain, expressing themselves, by turns, in the bright, flashing wit and humor and in the burning and inspired earnestness and sincerity of lofty, living thoughts and words. Therefore, this book can only present a comparatively lifeless picture of the real life of its eminent and distinguished subject, the late Col. Jesse Harper, of Danville, III. It is much to be regretted that the compiler of this book could not obtain more material for it in the form of anecdotes concerning the boyhood of Colonel Harper, and others, exhibiting his peculiarities and eccentricities both as a private citizen and a public man in after life. It is much more to be regretted that this book-picture of Colonel Harper´s life loses half its fidelity to life, and especially to the inner depths of Colonel Harper´s genial, heroic and self-sacrificing soul, through the fact that his vast and carefully preserved correspondence of many years was destroyed by fire. This correspondence, in which he had preserved many duplicates of his own letters, embraced eminent names, not only in the ranks of the reforms Colonel Harper represented, but also in the ranks of the two old political parties to which he was so long opposed. This correspondence was of great historic importance and value. 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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