Excerpt from The Iron Hunter Cellini states that all men Of whatsoever quality they be, who have done anything Of excellence, or which may properly resemble excellence, ought, if they are per sons Of truth and honesty, to describe their life with their own hands; but they ought not to attempt SO fine an enterprise until they have passed the age Of forty. And so, he says, in a work like this there will always be found occasion for natural bragging. Guizot wrote the history Of France after undertaking to tell it to his ...
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Excerpt from The Iron Hunter Cellini states that all men Of whatsoever quality they be, who have done anything Of excellence, or which may properly resemble excellence, ought, if they are per sons Of truth and honesty, to describe their life with their own hands; but they ought not to attempt SO fine an enterprise until they have passed the age Of forty. And so, he says, in a work like this there will always be found occasion for natural bragging. Guizot wrote the history Of France after undertaking to tell it to his grandchildren as they sat about his knee. When my friend, Emerson Hough, added his urging to that of my children and grandchildren, I first gave a serious thought to it. My father had a great prejudice against autobiographies. This be communicated to me congenitally. 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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