Excerpt from A Narrative of What Is Known Respecting the Literary Remains of the Late John Tweddell Tion of my letters, it was in ignorance of his having any view or design of hostility either towards myself or towards Lord Elgin; and I was by no means prepared to expect that what I communicated to him in kindness and in confidence, for the pur pose of assisting him in the work he had undertaken, was to be employed as a text, upon which to accuse me before the public for scantiness of information and inaccuracy of ...
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Excerpt from A Narrative of What Is Known Respecting the Literary Remains of the Late John Tweddell Tion of my letters, it was in ignorance of his having any view or design of hostility either towards myself or towards Lord Elgin; and I was by no means prepared to expect that what I communicated to him in kindness and in confidence, for the pur pose of assisting him in the work he had undertaken, was to be employed as a text, upon which to accuse me before the public for scantiness of information and inaccuracy of recollection; not to mention other still more serious imputations. - At all events I think it would have been more candid on the part of Mr. Robert Tweddell, if his remarks to this effect had been communi cated to me previous to their publication and if an opportunity had been given me of explaining whatever might seem to re quire it. 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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