Excerpt from The Life of Gen. Frank; Pierce, of New-Hampshire: The Democratic Candidate for President of the United States It is but just to remark that circumstances have compelled us to prepare the volume with great haste, so that the reader who is expecting a volume of ele gant writing, stands in a fair way to be disappoint cd; but he who desires a candid, unpretending, yet reliable record of the public career of franklin pierce, may - we trust we may say it without ego tism - consult our pages with safety. About the ...
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Excerpt from The Life of Gen. Frank; Pierce, of New-Hampshire: The Democratic Candidate for President of the United States It is but just to remark that circumstances have compelled us to prepare the volume with great haste, so that the reader who is expecting a volume of ele gant writing, stands in a fair way to be disappoint cd; but he who desires a candid, unpretending, yet reliable record of the public career of franklin pierce, may - we trust we may say it without ego tism - consult our pages with safety. 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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