Author: William Mavor

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-12-24

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9781397243355

Excerpt from The British Nepos: Consisting of Select Lives of Illustrious Britons, Who Have Distinguished Themselves by Their Virtues, Talents, or Remarkable Advancement in Life; With Incidental Practical Reflections MY lord, N arduous undertakings, the goodness of the in tention is generally allowed to throw a veil over the imperfections of the performance. The sincere tri bute ofna mite in rendering the effusions of respect, may be? Equal to the ostentatious ofiering of a talent. The following pages, which exhibit the prominent traits of character in some of the most illustrious Britons who have quitted the mortal scene, for the instruction and imitation of those xirho are entering on the stage of life, have a modest claim to the favour of the good, and even the patronage of the great. 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.