The Life of the Late General F. R. Chesney
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Life of the Late General F. R. Chesney: Colonel Commandant Royal Artillery D. C. L., F. R. S., F. R. G. S., Etc It is an approved and modest custom to introduce a biographical work to the overtaxed reader with deprecatory words of apology, to condole with him upon the multitude and discursiveness of such books, and to assure him that the particular volume which he is invited to read would never has seen the light but for the urgent entreaties of numerous friends; though it may be hinted that it possesses a few attractions for the general public. In the present instance I shall apologise for one thing only - that General Chesney´s Life has not been published sooner. Various causes, among which not the least was the abundance of the journals and other materials, have combined to delay the compilers: there has never been any question but that the Life must be written. There is undoubtedly a biographical, and, still worse, an autobiographical plethora in these days of literary abounding; and the cacoethes scribendi has induced the relation of many lives which, useful or ornamental as they were, can hardly be deemed worthy of the ponderous record of two portly volumes; so that a reader may be forgiven if he experiences a sensation of uneasiness when a new biographical memoir is offered to his jaded literary appetite. 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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