Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B.a: Of Trinity College, Cambridge, Extracted from His Letters and Diaries, with Reminiscences of His Converstion (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B.A: Of Trinity College, Cambridge, Extracted From His Letters and Diaries, With Reminiscences of His Converstion There are several forms of temperament. The kind that mostly issues in biography is the practical temperament. Poets have the shortest memoirs, and the most uninteresting. The politician, the philanthropist, the general, make the best, the most graphic Lives. The fact remains, however, that the question, What has he done? Though a specious, is an unsatisfactory test of ...
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Excerpt from Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B.A: Of Trinity College, Cambridge, Extracted From His Letters and Diaries, With Reminiscences of His Converstion There are several forms of temperament. The kind that mostly issues in biography is the practical temperament. Poets have the shortest memoirs, and the most uninteresting. The politician, the philanthropist, the general, make the best, the most graphic Lives. The fact remains, however, that the question, What has he done? Though a specious, is an unsatisfactory test of greatness. But there is a temperament called the Reflective, which works slowly, and with little apparent result. The very gift of expression is a practical gift: with the gift of expression the reflective man becomes a writer, a poet, an artist; without it, he is unknown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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