Americans And The Britons Classic Reprint

Author : Alexander Slidell MacKenzie
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ISBN 13 : 9781331028178
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book The American in England (Classic Reprint) written by Alexander Slidell MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American in England Feeling that irresistible impulse which prompts a man to perpetrate a book, and having no land of his own on which to amble quietly about and write a work of travels dry-shod, according to the approved method set forth in the motto, the author, as an, only resource, was forced to cross the water, and visit, in his proper person, the country which he proposed to describe. Trained almost from infancy to a profession which rendered connected study almost impossible, and having, only by dint of much perseverance, got what little education has fallen to his share in much the same discursive and vagabond manner that a chicken, gets his breakfast, a kernel of information in one corner and another in the next, he found himself, on mounting to begin his journey, quite unencumbered by any satchell of books such as hung at the crupper of the great Addison. To set out as a teacher of wisdom, with such poor qualifications, was to be destitute indeed Thus situated, yet still impelled by the necessity of writing, the author felt all that remained for him was to forget that any books before his own had ever been written, and, despising the erudition which was beyond his reach, endeavour to see each thing as his own eyes might convey its picture to his mind; and, looking watchfully about him, from the moment of his arrival in the country which was to be the scene of his travels until he should leave it, take as accurate notice as he might of all his impressions, and seek, in simple language, to convey them to his countrymen. The author has simply attempted, then, to give, in the following pages, a faithful narrative of whatever he saw during a visit of a few weeks to England. Thus setting out with promising little that little he will yet exert himself conscientiously to perform. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.