Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, From Personal Acquaintance
It will be obvious that there are not many to whom the task I undertake is possible. To have been personally acquainted with a large proportion of those who head the epoch, infers a youth long past, yet passed under circumstances such as could have been enjoyed by few. Some of whom I write had put on immortality before the greater number of my readers were born: one gene ration has passed away, and another has attained its prime, since the period to which I take them back for I write only of the Departed - only of those who, bequeathing to us the rich fruitage of their lives, I.eaving us heirs to amplest heritages Of all the best thoughts of the greatest sages.
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