Retrospections of an Active Life, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Retrospections of an Active Life, Vol. 1 The title of the work here submitted to the public has seemed to my publishers to require some explanation. I prefer to explain rather than to change it. I could not dignify it with the title of Reminiscences. That would be paying quite too great a compliment to the memory of any man of my age, however unimpeachable his character. Memoirs and Memorabilia for the same reason would be a scarcely less presuming title. I have attempted to give only what navigators would term the headlands of what in our day seems to be regarded as an unusually protracted life. For those headlands I am prepared to give more or less contemporaneous vouchers. They are therefore strictly retrospections and in no proper sense recollections, though calculated naturally to awaken memories confirming them. The nearest to any qualification of these statements that I feel called upon to make will be found in the first few pages devoted to my youth, and before I had entered into formal relations of any kind with the world as a publicist. I begin My story early - not misled, I trust, By an infirmity of love for days Disowned by memory, ere the breath of spring Planting my snowdrops among winter snows. Happily these Juvenilia have been guarded by my memory more faithfully than many of my later experiences of life. Were it otherwise, neither the events themselves nor the limited space they occupy can greatly concern the reader. Yet they also deserve a brief explanation. 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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