Reminiscences Of Fifty Years

Author : Mark Boyd
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ISBN 13 : 9781331696841
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of Fifty Years (Classic Reprint) written by Mark Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of Fifty Years But on this occasion, an entirely exceptional one, he was complimentary to my nation, and addressing my wife, who is English, asked her "if she had ever read Dean Ramsay's Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character?" I will not undertake to say what would have been her answer, had I been absent. However, her reply was simply that she had not read the work. "Then Madam, you will find it most entertaining. Here it is: I have just finished its perusal for the third time. Desire your has band to read some of it daily to you, and I vouch for it making you laugh as heartily as I have done. Moreover, you will discover that it possesses wonderful sedative and soothing qualities, which, while being administered, will allay those neuralgic pains from which you and myself suffer so severely." Another friend - one of the most estimable men I ever knew throughout a period of forty years, nearly twenty of which we sat together as co-directors at the London Board of a wealthy and successful Scotch Insurance Company - was the late Mr. Isaac Sewell of Gresham House, Old Broad Street, and Wanstead, Essex, a man whose humor and point in relating an anecdote, or in giving effect to an amusing speech, at all times charmed our social circle. He often said to me: "You cannot only relate your Scotch anccdotes in the vernacular, but be a glossary at the same times to your English hearers; why not then sketch out some of your Anglo-Scotch reminiscences, as you can say 'Shibboleth' on both banks of the Jordan?" 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.