My Life and My Lectures (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from My Life and My Lectures In offering this book to the public I have been impelled by no desire to attain notoriety or hope of making money out of it, but as garbled accounts of many of the incidents I shall herein relate have long been public property, and read and reread in many lands, I feel it a duty I owe, not only to the reading public, but to myself and descendants, that I give the cold facts just as they occurred. I shall make no attempt to write history, or give details of great battles. I shall narrate what I saw with my own eyes and what occurred to me individually, and I will be as brief with each event as possible, and where they are of great importance to me personally I shall be minute in my word painting, and truthfully convey the scene and incident to the mind of the reader. For more than a third of a century I have been urged and entreated by my legions of friends to give these incidents to the public, but until now I have been restrained from the fear that I would be looked upon as an egotistical braggart - for my long life, of more than three-quarters of a century, has been a busy and eventful one, and filled with adventures in every clime under the sun. And whether in early childhood as a schoolboy, or as an Indian, a captive, on the wild Western plains of my own native State, as sailor, soldier, explorer, hunter, or civil engineer, I have been guided by devotion, concentration, and absolute persistence in the duties involved in whatever enterprise or calling I at the time engaged in. I always tried to excel in whatever I undertook. I was taught in my early childhood by one of the best of mothers that whatever was worth doing was worth doing well, and this idea has always been uppermost in my mind, and has been my guide through life. 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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