Short Sketches Of Some Notable Lives PDF Download

Excerpt from People I Have Met: Short Sketches of Many Prominent Persons It has been my good fortune or my fate, to travel - not like the majority of tourists without rest - but with occasional quiet hours "at home" for the enjoyment of the pleasant thoughts and sentiments awakened by contact with the many cultured and famous people it has been my destiny to meet. There is always a charm in little home sketches of those whose writings have pleased or instructed - us like, when after the glamor of stage effect, we are favored, as it were, with glimpses behind the scenes. The pleasing incidents and anecdotes portraying the inner life, thoughts and acts of those we love, admire or venerate, have for us not only a tender interest, but often serve as a key to unlock for us those palaces of enchantment where poets and authors have delighted to dwell. 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.