Life and Letters of the First Earl of Durham, 1792-1840, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Stuart J. Reid
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333455255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Excerpt from Life and Letters of the First Earl of Durham, 1792-1840, Vol. 1 of 2 IF ever the old saying that brevity is the soul of wit seems applicable, it is when a man sits down to explain, if not the scope of, at least the reason for, the task he has undertaken. A biography is like a building: it either makes, or fails to make, its own appeal. The author, like the architect, need not concern himself greatly about taking the world into his confidence over the difficulties which confronted him, or the con siderations which determined his choice of materials. In both undertakings there are a thousand points, both small and great, to settle, too tedious to state and of small consequence when the work is finished. For the rest, a preface, like a porch, ought not to be out of scale. In the building of a book, even before the scaffolding is taken down and public judgment is pronounced, a man has reason to know that the work might be better, yet, after all, the most that any one can claim is that he has tried to do his best. 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.