Life Writings And Correspondence Of George Borrow 1803 1881 PDF Download

Excerpt from Life, Writings and Correspondence of George Borrow, 1803 1881, Vol. 1 of 2 That the notices of him found in the Biographical Dictionaries and Encyclopedias of Great Britain, Amer ica, and the Continent of Europe were inferred from his works, or from the reviews of them, and, as a consequence of such guess deductions, were generally erroneous. That no one seemed to have gone behind his own vague asser tions, or to have taken the slightest pains to inquire whether he had left any materials for his own biography. That my own acquaintance with his writings dated from the year 1852 or 1853 - about the time of my entering College. That the enthusiasm for linguistic and gypsy studies with which he inspired my youth has never suf fered any decline these fifty years, or allowed my love for his memory to grow dim. That during a long resi dence in the Peninsula, his lines of travel were trodden over by me many times. 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.