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Excerpt from Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America, Vol. 1 of 2: Embracing History, Statesmanship, Naval and Military Life, Philosophy, the Drama, Science, Literature and Art, With Biographies Tion; to include all that can be gathered within the necessary limits to display the strong, essential elements Of character. The artistical department Of the. 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.