Memoirs of a Traveller, Now in Retirement, Vol. 1 of 5: Interspersed With Historical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes, Relative to Many of the ... of the Present Age (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

9780483447806: Memoirs of a Traveller, Now in Retirement, Vol. 1 of 5: Interspersed With Historical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes, Relative to Many of the ... of the Present Age (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0483447803 ISBN 13: 9780483447806

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Memoirs of a Traveller, Now in Retirement, Vol. 1 of 5: Interspersed With Historical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes, Relative to Many of the Principal Personages of the Present Age

The reader is requested, once for all, toibear it particularly in mind, that these Memoiis were written between the years 1775 and 1805. Was happy in the bosom of his family. The love and tenderness of the best of wives, the docility and good disposition of seven children reared under his own eye, were gratifications sufficient fair; an honest and unambitious man. Olii' eduo cation was the principal object of his attention and the great success'which followed his care of mine raised the most flattering expectations in his mind, and constituted his greatest pleasure. I was scarely ten years old when I wrote comedies, which, it will be easily imagined, possessed no other me rit than that of amusing him; I made enigmas for the Alcrcure de France, madrigals for my female friends, and epigrams upon the occurrences of the day in short, before Ihad attained the age of twelve I had established my te putation as the bcl'csprz't of the neigh bourhood. All the praises, however.

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