The Confessions of an Elderly Lady (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Confessions of an Elderly Lady To be sure, people did assert that Dr. Johnson wrote the reported speeches, but so much the better, say I: for they will stand as honorable records of the abilities of my contemporaries, when the world no longer remembers the rumor of their Johnsonian parentage, and will form an admirable contrast to the inflated common places, or flimsy theories of the present time. I have but one consolation for the degeneracy of the age, and that consists in the conviction that few records of it will descend to posterity. People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it. The present race seem to think only of the actual minute. They are prodigals, who give no thought to their predecessors, and no care to their successors. People were not thus heartless in my youthful days - but every thing is changed! The magazines, too, how they are fallen off! No longer do two interesting looking heads, yeleped "A tete-a-teie," or "The fair deceiver and the enamoured Philander," meet the gaze, initiating one into some recent morçeau of amusing scandal. 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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