Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Excerpt from Memories of My Time: Including Personal Reminiscences of Eminent Men When I sat down to commit these reminiscences to paper, I felt the extreme difficulty, and even delicacy, of the task I had undertaken; and I am too well aware how inadequately I have performed it; but I have been impelled throughout by a consciousness that the peculiar relations in which I had stood with men who have won renown in the struggle for literary distinction, had supplied me with facts sufficiently interesting to be laid before the world. 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.

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.