The Uses of Biography

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Excerpt from The Uses of Biography: Romantic, Philosophic, and Didactic Some few years since, in pulling down an Old house in Gloucestershire, there was: discovered between the walls a secret chamber. It was quite evident that several generations had passed away since any one had entered the room it was a rude, cheerless, comfortless apartment enough. There was a poor mattress, a stool, and a table, on the table lay an open Bible, a lamp, and a pair of spectacles. N O doubt was entertained that the room had been pre pared for, and tenanted by, some One of the brave sufferers for the rights of conscience, but who had last slept on that bed, sat on that stool before the table - for whom the little lamp had last been. 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.