Recollections of Eminent Men
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Excerpt from Recollections of Eminent Men: With Other Papers The writer of these now collected celebrations of literary, political, scientific, and philanthrophic genius has added his own name to the number of the dead, and his own writings thereby become posthumous. As the peer of the subjects of his pen, he would deserve a portrait from the hand of an artist equal to himself in depicting character, could such an one be found. Had he, like Rubens and Hunt and other painters, sat to himself, what a likeness, in manuscript, from his self-knowledge and curious skill we might have had, but that his singular lowliness would hide the equally rare splendor of his gifts! A remarkable unconsciousness of his own superiority always made others´ estimate of him a sort of shame and surprise to his own mind; and so, in appraising his peculiar faculties, he would for once have fallen below the mark. To use Jeremy Taylor´s figure, he was like the candle casting about it a shadow and a cloud, and shining to all but himself. 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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