The Life And Letters Of John Angell James

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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of John Angell James: Including an Unfinished Autobiography I have been many times solicited to prepare for posthumous publication an autobiography. To this I have many, and, as they appear to myself, strong and well-grounded objections. I am quite aware that on some accounts, most men are their best and most competent memorialists, provided they have preserved, as life went on, the matter of which such a history Should be composed, and have sufiicient courage and honesty, and freedom both from false shame and self-love, to write the truth, the whole truth, and no thing but the truth concerning themselves and others; and at the same time enough of candour, perspicacity, and discrimination in judging of events and characters with which they have been mixed up. Nor ought I to omit as another qualification for an interest ing and instructive autobiography, a consciousness on the part of the writer that his life is of sufficient importance to be committed to record. 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.