Life of Daniel Webster (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Life of Daniel Webster Soon after the death of Mr. Webster, the students of a literary institution, of which I then had charge, requested me to address them in reference to the occasion; and, with a partiality natural to young men toward those having the oversight of their education, they requested a copy of the address for publication. Within a few weeks from the time of its publication, a proposal was made to me, by the most extensive inland publishers in this country, to write for them a life of Daniel Webster. The proposal was declined; but another proposition, to write a volume on the character of Mr. Webster, in the several departments of his intellectual life and labor, with specimens of his style in each department, woe returned. These overtures led to quite a correspondence, and finally to the composition of the present work, which, the reader will perceive, is an enlargement of both propositions blended. It would have been possible, perhaps, in the composition of the first volume, which narrates the life of the great statesman, to follow his career more minutely, step by step, and year by year, if not day by day, at least from the time when his career became connected with the history of his country; but this sort of biography, so common when books were scarce, and when amusement rather than instruction was the object sought after by the reader, meets not the temper of an age, which, active and busy to excess, has no time to waste on needless particulars, but hastens over tiresome details to seize upon the great facts involving and demonstrating character. 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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