Memoirs (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from MemoirsIt seemed to me, also, that though I have not lived famil iarly among the princes, potentates, and powers of the earth, yet as I have met or seen or corresponded with about five hundred of the three thousand set down in Men of the Time, and been kindly classed among them, it was worth while to mention my meetings with many of them. Had the humblest scribbler of the age of Elizabeth so much as mentioned that he had ever exchanged a word with, or even looked at, any of the great writers of his time, his record would now be read with avidity. I have really never in my life run after such men, or sought to make their acquaintance with a view of extending my list, all that I can tell of them, as my book will show, has been the result of chance. But what I have written will be of some interest, I think - at least in the dim and remote future.I had laid the manuscript by, till I had time to quite for get what I had written, when I unexpectedly received a pro posal to write my memoirs. I then read over my work, and determined to let it go, as it was. It seemed to me that, with all its faults, it fulfilled the requisition of Montaigne in being any livre de bonne foye. So it has gone forth into print. Jacta est alea.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.