The Life of William Cavendish
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Life of William Cavendish: Duke of Newcastle; To Which Is Added the True Relation of My Birth Breeding and Life The first edition of this Life of the Duke of Newcastle was published in 1667. It is a thin folio of about 200 pages. This was followed in 1668 by a Latin version, translated by Walter Charlton, well known in his later days as President of the College of Physicians. In 1675 was published the third edition, a quarto; for the translation, like the original edition, is in folio. In 1872 a careful reprint of the first edition, edited by Mark Antony Lower, was included in Russell Smith´s ´Library of Old Authors´. In the present edition, the spelling has been modernized, and the punctuation occasionally altered. The three editions published during the lifetime of the subject testify to the popularity of the book at a time when the events recorded in it were still fresh in the memories of those who read it, and it still retains an enduring interest for later generations. Somewhat contradictory have been the judgments passed upon it. The volume of Letters and Poems in Honour of the Incomparable Princess, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, printed in 1676, preserves the opinions of the learned persons and learned bodies to whom the Duchess sent presentation copies. The response of the University of Cambridge was worthy of the gift and the giver. ´Hereafter, if generous and highborn men shall search our library for a model of a most accomplished general, they shall find it expressed to the life, not in Xenophon´s Cyrus, but in the Duchess of Newcastle´s William! . . . In regard we could not be admitted to the favour of kissing your hand, we cease not to bestow ten thousand embraces upon every page of that book which hath so noble and immortal a subject as is his grace the Duke of Newcastle.´ 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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