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Excerpt from Memoir of the Life and Episcopate of George Augustus Selwyn, Vol. 1 of 2: Bishop of New Zealand, 1841-1869; Bishop of Lichfield, 1867-1878 How Should a great man's life be written? How for example Should you wish your own life to be written if it ever were written 2? These two questions were put to the subject Of this Biography not many months before his death. He paused for a minute, repeated the second question, and then said, Tell first all my faults, and then tell whatever the grace Of God has enabled me to do in Spite of them. 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.