Memoirs of the Life of the Late John With Notices of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of the Late John With Notices of His Hunting, Shooting, Driving Bishop burnetts narrative of the re markable passages in the life of the very celebrated Earl of Rochester has been greatly valued, not only as an elegant composition, but as a lesson of instruction to all mankind. The latter of these honours, to a certain extent, I may venture to claim as the result of this sketch - at all events such is, in part, its design, and as no subject is so interesting to man as man, I have a good theme for my pen, inasmuch as there is one present to my d whose equal, as a private English gentleman, the world never before saw, neither is it, for some reasons, desirable the world should ever again see. My only fear is, that I may be deficient in strength of pencil to draw the picture to the\ life, and to represent the anomaly in human nature which the character of the late John Mytton presents, at one time, an honour to his nature, at another, a satire on humanity. What more can be done, than to strike the balance with an even hand? And as the brightness of the. 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.