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Excerpt from Biographical Conversations, on the Most Eminent and Instructive British Characters: Interspersed With Numerous Anecdotes, Illustrative of Their Lives and Actions, and of the Times in Which They Lived
IT was a little before Christmas that Frederic Mon tagu, accompanied by his tutor the Rev. Mr. Allen, had arrived at Seaford Castle, in Devonshire, the seat of his uncle Sir Charles Irwin. 'they had been invited to pass there a few months previously to Frederic making his final preparations for college. Sir Charles' 8 family at this time consisted of himself, Lady Irwin, his son Edmund, a youth about seven, teen years of age, and two daughters, of_ whom Louisa was the elder, but both of them younger than their brother. The education of Edmund had been wholly con ducted by Sir. Charles, who, as far as it was possible, had sought to let recreation and instruction go hand in hand, and to communicate knowledge through the medium of amusement. 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.
