Ned Clinton Or The Commissary Comprising Adventures And Events During The Peninsular War With Curious And Original Anecdotes Of Military And Other Remarkable Characters In Three Volumes In 2

Author : Francis Glasse
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484251921
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Ned Clinton; Or the Commissary, Vol. 2 of 3 written by Francis Glasse and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ned Clinton; Or the Commissary, Vol. 2 of 3: Comprising Adventures, and Events During the Peninsular War With Curious and Original Anecdotes of Military, and Other Remarkable Characters If the truth is to be told on this occa sion, it must be confessed that we were both Of us indebted for our state Of poverty to the ghostly father, through whose contrivan ces we were led into those expenses which soon made mere ghosts Of our purses; but how much Of this money was given away in charity, or in what manner the rest was circulated, it is needless to explain; though 'tis only chari table to suppose, from our intimacy with the holy father, and his high approbation. Of our conduct, that it was all well applied. For my part, I may own 1 received pleasure in exchange for my money, and that as I grew happy I grew thin, till at length my body, like my purse, was little more than the ghost of what it had been. 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.