Excerpt from Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective O write in the spirit of candor of men he has known, and of great events in Which he has himself borne no inconspicuous part, has been thought not an unworthy task for the closing years of more than one of the most eminent of our public men. It may be that the labor thus imposed has oftentimes enabled the once active participant in great affairs submissively to entertain the lag end of his life with ...
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Excerpt from Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective O write in the spirit of candor of men he has known, and of great events in Which he has himself borne no inconspicuous part, has been thought not an unworthy task for the closing years of more than one of the most eminent of our public men. It may be that the labor thus imposed has oftentimes enabled the once active participant in great affairs submissively to entertain the lag end of his life with quiet hours. Following the example of such at a great distance and along a humbler path, I have attempted to write something of events of Which I have been a witness, and of some of the principal actors therein during the last third of a century. 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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