Seven Decades of My Life (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Seven Decades of My Life I don´t know that any one will ever read the following pages; therefore, they need no preface, and if they did, they speak for themselves. There is no plan nor plot; they merely follow the footsteps of one man and the circle that moves with him. They travel with the days, months and years, and record what is seen and heard in a lifetime. I simply talk, and attempt no fine writing or undue enthusiasm to arouse interest. The road is long, seventy years long and I try to present the scenery along the way and the events, important or otherwise, as they come before me. I will be glad to have you accompany me and listen to my tale, for you know that everybody loves to talk about himself, if he can find a good listener. Some of the men and women I have met or who have traveled with me, were good and great, serving their generation and making the world better because they lived during this period. I have presented them to you because I was happy to be with that crowd, and their example might be beneficial to you. If you are disposed to criticise an old man for recording the follies and fancies of his youth, please recall your own follies before you throw the first stone, and then take that big beam out of your eyes. Some of the historical events here recorded were among the greatest in the history of our country, and I was connected, in some way, with many of them, and acted my part to the satisfaction of the great men under whom I served, according to their written testimony. Goethe, the great German Poet, says, "Each ten years of a man´s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires." Recognizing the truth of this saying I have divided this sketch of a man´s life into decades. So here´s to you and yours, and "May you live long and prosper." 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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