Excerpt from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 1 of 2 For the purpose Of completing that work, I had lately re-assumed my habit of writing; and being tired 'of so serious and responsible a concern as Memoirs of Ireland and the Union, I began to consider what species of employment might lightly wear away the long and tedious winter evenings of a demi-invalid and recollecting that I could nei ther live for ever nor was sure of being the last man, I conceived the idea Of looking over and burning a horse-load or two of ...
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Excerpt from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 1 of 2 For the purpose Of completing that work, I had lately re-assumed my habit of writing; and being tired 'of so serious and responsible a concern as Memoirs of Ireland and the Union, I began to consider what species of employment might lightly wear away the long and tedious winter evenings of a demi-invalid and recollecting that I could nei ther live for ever nor was sure of being the last man, I conceived the idea Of looking over and burning a horse-load or two of letters, papers, and fragments of all descriptions, which I had been carrying about'in Old trunks (not choosing to leave them at any body's mercy), and to which I had been perpetually adding. 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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