Some Xviii Century Men Of Letters Vol 1

Author : Whitwell Elwin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330432112
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Some XVIII Century Men of Letters, Vol. 1 written by Whitwell Elwin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some XVIII Century Men of Letters, Vol. 1: Biographical Essays The scheme for republishing my father's biographical contributions to the Quarterly Review dates back some forty years. That it has not been carried out sooner is owing to his own unwillingness to reprint them without extensive revision, and though he made some progress in the preparation of a few of them, he never reached the stage at which he was ready to send them to press himself. The Essays included in the present volumes are now printed with whatever alterations he had made. The unfinished condition of the addenda will be obvious in certain places; but though it is an inevitable detriment to the style here and there, the value of the Lives is enhanced by the additional work he had bestowed on them. An introductory note is affixed to each, stating the date of publication of the original article in the Review, and the extent and nature of the changes which it subsequently received at his hands. In my father's own revisions he appended references to authorities, and, both for the sake of uniformity, and to render the work more useful to students, these have been in some degree completed, in notes within brackets, in the portions which he had not touched himself. Whether a life that is deliberately spent in retirement is a fitting subject for biography may be open to question. My father would certainly have wished that no formal Memoir of him should be written. 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.