A Life of Lord Lyndhurst From Letters and Papers in Possession of His Family (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Theodore Martin
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ISBN: 9781331120414
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Excerpt from A Life of Lord Lyndhurst From Letters and Papers in Possession of His Family It has been said of men truly eminent, that they "think too meanly of themselves or their work to care much to be personally remembered." Such men early begin to feel how infinitely insignificant is the individual in relation to the history past and future of the race of which he may for a time have been a distinguished and influential unit; and, as the years go by, and they look back upon the experience of a long life, this feeling is pretty sure to become a settled conviction. It was so with Lord Lyndhurst. "What have I been," he would say, when pressed by his family or friends to furnish them with materials for his biography, "but a successful lawyer? I have been three times Chancellor, and I have tried to do something for my country in my place in Parliament. But what is there in that to make the world desire to know anything about me hereafter?" Acting on this conviction, he took care that no diaries of his own should survive to gratify curiosity, and upon principle destroyed almost every letter or paper of a confidential nature, which could have thrown light upon his official life, or his relations with the leaders in society or politics, with whom he was intimately associated. So far, therefore, as he could, he made a complete biography of himself impossible. 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.