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Excerpt from The Autobiography of Arthur Young
Englishman was more truly English; never English man was less narrow in his social sympathies.
The religious melancholia of his later years is explicable on several grounds: to the in?uence of his friend, the great Wilberforce; to the crushing sorrow Of his beloved little daughter 'bobbin's' death lastly, perhaps, to exaggerated self-condemnation for foibles of his youth. Few lives have been more many-sided, more varied; few, indeed, have been more fortunate and unfortunate at the same time.
The Memoirs, whilst necessarily abridged and arranged, are given precisely as they were written - that is to say, although it has been necessary to omit much, not a word has been added or altered. Whenever a word or sentence needed explanation or correction, the editorial note is bracketed. The foot-notes, unless when otherwise stated, are all editorial.
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