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Excerpt from Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science, and Art, With Biographical Memoirs, Vol. 1: The Photographs From Life In 1829, three years previous to this publication, Lord Mahon published a Life of Belisarius, ' pointing out some errors into which Gibbon had fallen; and the success of this attempt was ac knowledged at home and abroad, amongst others by Von Hammer, a critic of eminence at Vienna. In 1845 he edited Lord Chester field's 'letters, ' and at intervals from 1833 to 1846 he was the writer of articles, mainly historical, in the Quarterly Review.' Some of these, J can of Arc' for example, have been published in a cheap and popular form 3 and the Whole series was issued in the year 1849 collectively, as part of 'murray's Home and Colo nial Library.' In the same series appeared, in 1845, the admirable biography, the Life of Conde.' An extract from the History of England' made its appearance in 1838 under the title of 'the Rise of our Indian Empire and a similar excerpt, under the name of Lord Mahon's History of the American Revolution, ' has been commented on in North American Reviews. 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.