Excerpt from The Life of the Late General F. R. Chesney: Colonel Commandant Royal Artillery D. C. L., F. R. S., F. R. G. S., Etc There are some lives in every generation, how ever, that ought to be placed on record. In Spite of the too frequent telling of the tale, no one will deny that the hero of Khartum deserved the noblest biography that man could write and the reason that we wish to know how Gordon lived and died is not merely a passing and too short-lived curiosity about the man of the hour, but the better and more ...
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Excerpt from The Life of the Late General F. R. Chesney: Colonel Commandant Royal Artillery D. C. L., F. R. S., F. R. G. S., Etc There are some lives in every generation, how ever, that ought to be placed on record. In Spite of the too frequent telling of the tale, no one will deny that the hero of Khartum deserved the noblest biography that man could write and the reason that we wish to know how Gordon lived and died is not merely a passing and too short-lived curiosity about the man of the hour, but the better and more lasting feeling that the study of such a life, the contemplation of such unswerving devotion to duty, such absolute surrender of self and personal interests, such cool English courage, tends to reproduce and propagate 'the high ideals of conduct which that life displays: for by reading of golden deeds we ourselves become better fitted to perform them. 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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