Memoirs Of Richard Cumberland Written By Himself Containing An Account Of His Life And Writings Interspersed With Anecdotes And Characters Of Several Of The Most Distinguished Persons Of His Time Etc With Supplement To The Memoirs With Portraits

Author : Richard Cumberland
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ISBN 13 : 9781331297611
Total Pages : 306 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Richard Cumberland written by Richard Cumberland and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: Containing an Account of His Life and Writings, Interspersed With Anecdotes and Characters of Several of the Most Distinguished Persons of the Time, With Whom He Has Had Intercourse and Connexion At the close of the year 1804, whilst I am still in possession of my faculties, though full of years, I sit down to give a history of my life and writings. I do not undertake the task lightly and without deliberation, for I have weighed the difficulties, and am prepared to meet them. I have lived so long in this world, mixed so generally with mankind, and written so voluminously and so variously, that I trust my motives cannot be greatly misunderstood, if, with strict attention to truth, and in simplicity of style, I pursue my narrative, saying nothing more of the immediate object of these memoirs, than in honour and in conscience I am warranted to say. I shall use so little embellishment in this narrative, that if the reader is naturally candid he will not be disgusted; if he is easily amused he will not be disappointed. As I have been, through life, a negligent recorder of dates and events relating to myself, it is very possible I may fall into errours of memory as to the order and arrangement of certain facts and occurrences, but whilst I adhere to veracity in the relation of them, the trespass, I presume, will be readily overlooked. Of many persons, with whom I have had intercourse and connexion, I shall speak freely and impartially. I know myself incapable of wantonly aspersing the characters of the living or the dead; but, though I will not indulge myself in conjectures, I will not turn aside from facts, and neither from affectation of candour, nor dread of recrimination, wave the privilege, which I claim for myself in every page of this history, of speaking the truth from my heart: I may not always say all that I could, but I will never knowingly say of any man what I should not. 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.