Reminiscences of the Last Sixty-Five Years, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Last Sixty-Five Years, Vol. 1 of 2: Commencing With the Battle of Lexington, Also, Sketches of His Own Life and Times In my youth I read a great deal, and had read many works without ever having read a preface, until I was going to read Montesquieu, when, as luck would have it, I happened to open at the preface, and my eye lit upon the passage, where he quotes the exclamation of Corregio, on viewing a painting, the production of one of his great predecessors, "and I also am a painter." From that time, I never read a book without having first read the preface, which, I at once discovered, was necessary to a correct understanding of the author. The following work consists solely of my personal recollections, except in a very few instances, the sources of which are distinctly pointed out, where they occur. 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.