Excerpt from John Lavery and His Work T is almost as difficult to write the Preface to a friend's Life as to write one's autobiography. In the latter instance, a man (i think) must be devoid of any sense of humour or of self-respect. How can a self-respecting man sit down and calmly chronicle in set terms: I was born on such and such a day. My parents were in poor but honest circumstances. They brought me up a Baptist, in which faith I continued till I became wealthy, when I joined the Church. All the education that I ...
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Excerpt from John Lavery and His Work T is almost as difficult to write the Preface to a friend's Life as to write one's autobiography. In the latter instance, a man (i think) must be devoid of any sense of humour or of self-respect. How can a self-respecting man sit down and calmly chronicle in set terms: I was born on such and such a day. My parents were in poor but honest circumstances. They brought me up a Baptist, in which faith I continued till I became wealthy, when I joined the Church. All the education that I ever had was at the parish school. When there I early showed my aptitude for business by lending money to the other boys, when they ran short of pence, for marbles and for sweets. Then I was sent into my uncle's office, and soon rose to be a clerk, then junior partner, and entered the town council as a Liberal; but seeing clearly that Providence was on the side of the Conservatives, bowed to his will, and soon became the Mayor. Generally in writing prefaces to books like this the difficulty that attacks the humble preface-writer is the great dearth of facts. In this case nothing of that kind is in my way. In fact the amount of stuff from which I have to take my facts is overwhelming. 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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