Excerpt from Life of Elder Walter Scott: With Sketches of His Fellow-Laborers, William Hayden, Adamson Bentley, John Henry, and Others In every instance in which it has been possible the dead has been permitted to speak - his views are given in his own words, and the effort constantly made to make him his own biographer. When this has failed, the best recollections of those who knew him best have been used; to those, without whose aid this book could not have been written, our thanks are due, and to one and all are warmly ...
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Excerpt from Life of Elder Walter Scott: With Sketches of His Fellow-Laborers, William Hayden, Adamson Bentley, John Henry, and Others In every instance in which it has been possible the dead has been permitted to speak - his views are given in his own words, and the effort constantly made to make him his own biographer. When this has failed, the best recollections of those who knew him best have been used; to those, without whose aid this book could not have been written, our thanks are due, and to one and all are warmly given. Much that would have been worthy of record has gone beyond recall, but something, we trust, has been saved that is worth the saving; and though the writer feels, as none other can, how ime perfect his book is, yet he feels that what has been done has not been done in vain. Imperfect as these details are, he who reads them will feel that he is in communion with a great and gifted man, and what is better still, with a pious, God-fearing one. He will think better of his race, and, we trust, be led to see the beauty of a life of trust in God, and a devotion to his truth, such as has seldom been surpassed. An introductory chapter has been deemed needful, that the reader may see by the contrast between what has been, and what now is, the great change that has been wrought in a great measure by the labors of him of whom we write. May God's blessing attend both book and reader is the prayer of' the author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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