Delaplaine´s Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished American Characters (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Delaplaine, Joseph) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Delaplaine´s Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished American Characters To possess well executed portraits of those exalted personages who directed, in their day, the destinies of the world, and the effect of whose wisdom and learning, eloquence and energy has descended even to the present times, would be a matter of high and peculiar interest. By many persons - perhaps a majority of those who might possess them - the works of the artist would be prized beyond even those of the writer. In the pages of the Repository pains have been taken and heavy expences incurred, to remedy the defect that exists in the writings of the ancient biographers. The engravings which those pages contain, besides being sufficiently elegant and ornamental, are correct and striking likenesses of the distinguished characters they are intended to represent. While the text shall communicate to remote posterity what, at a former period, the leading men of America thought and performed, the portraits accompanying it will give a view of their features and general aspect, their costume and air. Thus by the combined operations of the type and the graver will a correct image of the whole man be exhibited to view. In relation to a future and distant period, such is the peculiar merit which the Repository possesses. Of its suitableness to the present times, every reader will, probably, claim the privilege of judging for 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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