The Making of a King (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Making of a KingHE nets of history have a terrible tendency to let the little fishes through. It would indeed be difficult to find a mesh strong enough to hold captive the monsters of the deep, and at the same time sufficiently delicate to catch the shining goldfish, or even a moderate-sized trout. The great facts of a man's life, when his life has mattered to the world, can usually be trusted to take care of themselves but the touches that give life to the picture, the puny virtues and petty faults, the lovable weaknesses and follies, have a precarious existence so far as posterity is concerned.And yet these evasive elements, these tri¿ing inci dents, are often just the things best worth knowing. Bones are well enough in their way, and doubtless necessary to the human fabric, but which of us, save the ascetic, would choose a skeleton for contemplation Its ephemeral clothing, the beauty and, not less, the blemishes, of the garment which decently veils what lies below - this is what the ordinary man desires to look at.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.