Men Worthy to Lead
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Men Worthy to Lead: Being Lives of John Howard, William Wilberforce, Thomas Chalmers, Thomas Arnold, Samuel Budgett, John Foster There is no fair and adequate, in one word, satisfactory, biography of Howard in the hands of his countrymen, - no estimate of his character and work which can or ought to be final. Aiken´s work is mainly a lengthened mental analysis, by no means void of value, and written with clearness and spirit; but it admits of doubt whether Howard was of that order of men in whose case such analysis can be considered useful or admissible. Brown´s life contains a true image of Howard; but it rests there in rude outline, too much as the statue lies in the half-cut block. The work wants unity, is fatally dull, and is not free from the generic taints of biography, exaggeration and daubing. Mr Dixon´s book is in some respects the best, and in some the worst I have seen on Howard. The account it gives of his journeys is spirited and clear, and no charge of dullness can be brought against its general style. Yet it may be pronounced, as a whole, and in one word, wrong. It is set on a false key. It is brisk, sparkling, continually pointed; if it does not directly share the characteristics of either, it seems to belong to a debateable region between flippancy and bombast; in fatal measure, it wants chasteness and repose. 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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