Life of Sir Thomas Munro (Classic Reprint)

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Fb&c Limited, 24. okt. 2017 - 380 sider
Excerpt from Life of Sir Thomas Munro

The New Edition of the life OF Sm thomas munbo, which is now presented to the public, does not differ, in any important parti onlar, from the' larger and more costly impressions which preceded it My own portion of the narrative has, indeed, been in a great measure re-written - a process which will not, I trust, be found to be quite without value; but the correspondence remains pre cisely what it was, except that pains have been taken to lighten, without impairing its value, by the omission of a few state papers that formerly appeared as an Appendix, and the condensation of the details of military events, in which the interest has long since passed away. Not one line, however, is wanting which can in any manner elucidate the public opinions of the writer, or bring into notice the peculiarities of his noble character. For the career of Sir Thomas Munro, as he himself describes it, offers to society too important a moral lesson to be curtailed of any of its just proportions.

I am glad to send forth my book in a shape which seems to assure to it a still wider circulation than it has already received both at home and abroad. I trust that it will be read to good purpose by multitudes, especially of the young and the aspiring, both in England and her colonies.(vn)

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