My Life, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from My Life, Vol. 1 of 2 The contents of these volumes have been written down directly from my dictation, over a period of several years, by my friend and wife, who wished me to tell her the story of my life. It was the desire of both of us that these details of my life should be accessible to our family and to our sincere and trusted friends; and we decided therefore, in order to provide against a possible destruction of the one manuscript, to have a small number of copies printed at our own expense. As the value of this autobiography consists in its unadorned veracity, which, under the circumstances, is its only justification, there fore my statements had to be accompanied by precise names and dates; hence there could be no question of their publication until some time after my death, should interest in them still survive in our descendants, and on that point I intend leaving directions in my will. 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.




My Life, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from My Life, Vol. 2 of 3 The detachment to which I was ordered off, was quartered in a small town adjoining the mountains, and stationed there to protect half a-dozen gaugers, who were waging war against illicit whiskey. It consisted of two companies one was commanded by Captain o'moore, and he was mad; the other by Captain Daly, and he was married. Of the subalterns, two were sick and absent, and the other twain sent from head-quarters, being, as the colonel considered, unsuited for the corps. One drank water, kept Lent, played the fiddle, and professed anti duelling principles the other, because the com ruander disliked him for some cause with which we were unacquainted; he was, they said, re served and unsocial, and, from his brusque man ners and cynical disposition, generally unp0pu lar. 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.




My Life, Vol. 1 of 2


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Excerpt from My Life, Vol. 1 of 2: A Record of Events and Opinions The present volumes would not have been written had not the representatives of my English and American publishers assured me that they would probably interest a large number of readers. I had indeed promised to write some account of my early life for the information of my son and daughter, but this would have been of very limited scope, and would probably not have been printed. 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.




The Adventures of My Life, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from The Adventures of My Life, Vol. 1 of 2 C'est au point que dans mes articles quotidiens de l'Intransigeant je ne puis m'empecher d'etablir entre la facon dont on pratique le droit des gens des deux cotes du detroit des comparisons qui sont rarement a notre avantage. Et comme il serait inutile de s'instruire si on ne profitait pas de ses decouvertes pour instruire les autres, j'ai revele a la France les beautes de cette admirable ecole des artistes anglais qui ont resplendi vers la fin du siecle dernier et au debut de celui-ci. Car, chose incomprehensible, alors qu'a Londres on appeciait a leur reelle valeur nos Chardin, nos Greuze, nos Boucher, nos Watteau, a Paris on connaissait a peine de reputation les Hogarth, les Turner, les Thomas Lawrence, et pas meme de nom les Raeburn, les Romney, les Etty et cent autres peintres superieurs dont nos musees ne possedent pas le moindre echantillon. C'est pourtant la le terrain sur lequel les nations pourront toujours s'entendre. Quant a moi, qui n'ai pour les guerres coloniales que la plus entiere repulsion, j'ai toujours prefere de beaucoup la conquete d'un beau tableau de Reynolds a celle d'un territoire au Soudan. En vous remerciant encore de votre collaboration, cher Monsieur Smith, je vous envoie toutes mes amities. 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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Records of My Life, Vol. 1 of 1 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Records of My Life, Vol. 1 of 1 In the copy of this prologue, which appeared in the Public Advertiser, in 1769, the following couplet was inserted, Amid the toils of this returning year, When senators and nobles learn to fear. 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.




Twenty-Five Years of My Life and Memoirs of My Mother, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Twenty-Five Years of My Life and Memoirs of My Mother, Vol. 1 of 2 IN undertaking this translation of M. De lamartme's Memoirs, my only object has been to keep, as closely as possible, to the original. The peculiar style of the author rendered this a matter of some difficulty in another language, without making the trans lation too literal. Whether I have succeeded or not must be left to the judgment of my. 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.




Red-Letter Days of My Life, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Red-Letter Days of My Life, Vol. 1 of 2 The circumstances of my married life brought me into intimate acquaintance with an older generation than my own. 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.




My Life, From 1815 to 1849, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from My Life, From 1815 to 1849, Vol. 1 of 2 And wish the wars were over. Yes, many a brave fellow have I seen knocked over, and many a gallant tar fall off the top sail yards in the darkness of the night into the foaming waves below. Ye gentlemen of England Who live at home at ease, Ah, little do ye think upon The danger of the seas. Give ear unto the mariner, And he will plainly show All the cares and the fears When the stormy winds do blow. 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.




My Life, Vol. 2


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Excerpt from My Life, Vol. 2: A Record of Events and Opinions Soon after I returned home, in the summer of 1862, Mr. Darwin invited me to come to Down for a night, where I had the great pleasure of seeing him in his quiet home, and in the midst of his family. A year or two later I spent a week-end with him in company with Bates, Jenner Weir, and a few other naturalists; but my most frequent interviews with him were when he spent a few weeks with his brother, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, in Queen Anne Street, which he usually did every year when he was well enough, in order to see his friends and collect information for his various works. On these occasions I usually lunched with him and his brother, and sometimes one other visitor, and had a little talk on some of the matters specially interesting him. He also sometimes called on me in St. Mark's Crescent for a quiet talk or to see some of my collections. My first letter from him dealing with scientific matters was in August, 1862, and our correspondence was very extensive during the period occupied in writing or correcting his earlier books on evolution, down to the publication of "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals," in 1872, and afterwards, at longer intervals, to within less than a year of his death. 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.