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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of Peter Daniel Huet, Vol. 1 of 2: Bishop of Avranches; Written by Himself; And Translated From the Original Latin, With Copious Notes, Biographical and Critical Biographical narratives of which the same person is both the writer and subject can scarcely fail of affording to the reader something both amusing and instructive. Men know much relative to themselves L.that is a secret to the rest of the world; and they can take up their own history at an earlier period, and continue it more uninterruptedly, than it is possible for a biographer to do, who has probably engaged in his task only from acquaintance with its subject at a mature age, and who must content himself with vague and defective accounts of all that passed before he was produced on the public stage. 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.