Peterborough (Classic Reprint)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Stebbing, William) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Peterborough For the sixty years of his active career Peterborough was an enigma to his contemporaries. He has remained an enigma to posterity for a century and a half since. Never has a character or a memory been more pelted by writers of authority with contradictory epithets and attributes of praise and blame. He was, we have been told, a man of no true judgment and less virtue. His head was extremely hot, and confused with indigested schemes. A friend declared that his eminent talents were dashed with something restless and capricious in his nature. He was vainglorious, and without common sense. He was wayward, selfish, and ungovernable. Sometimes he would stoop to be a knave. He had a morbid craving for novelty and excitement. He was addicted to frivolous and fickle amours. He loved to preach in coffee-houses, and would play the fool as a ships chaplain. He would filch away the credit due to others as patriots, and dress himself in borrowed plumes as a soldier. It has even been boldly asserted that in war he showed himself a coward, a liar, and a thief. 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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