Author: Edwin Hodder

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-01-02

Total Pages: 848

ISBN-13: 9781334848650

Excerpt from The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K. G For many years Lord Shaftesbury resisted every appeal that was made to him to allow his biography to be written. N 0 one can do that satisfactorily but myself, he said, and I have neither the time nor the inclination. Towards the close of his life, however, it became apparent to him that a biography was, to use his own word, inevitable, and it was then his wish that it should be written with his co-operation. If the story, such as it is, must be told, he said, I should like it to be told accurately. That cannot be done unless I furnish the means. He accordingly placed at my disposal a mass of material, and, in addition, he was good enough to allow me for many months to be in frequent personal communication with him, when, pen in hand, I took down the record of his life as he narrated it. His memory to the very last was surprising, and as the scenes of his earlier life passed before him, he would recall facts and figures, dates and words, with such accuracy that although, at his request, I subsequently verified them, it was almost unnecessary to do so. 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.