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There is a sad contrast between the child Victoria's happi ness and the sorrows of that other royal child autobiographer, poor Marie Therese of France, who had only just been re stored to her royal court when Victoria was born. Democracy had come to England mildly, through legislation, not with fire and sword and guillotine as in France.
Other lands had still to win it. Our volume includes the autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi, that splendid lion-like Italian who fought to make Italy free. He fought also in South America aiding to unchain the peoples there; and never did any novelist 's dashing romance tell of. More hairbreadth escapes, more daring and heroic ventures than thrill from every page of Garibaldi 's memoirs. Some foolish person once said that Romance was dead in our modern world. Why, in Garibaldi 's story she has not even changed the ancient weapons of her trade.
One might almost say the same of Lincoln, America's mar tyr president, who comes within the limits of this period. He also was a great romantic hero, a rustic knight of chivalry rewinning a forgotten birthright by deeds of glorious em prise. The only sketch of his own life that Lincoln ever wrote was brief. He sent it to a friend to prepare for the presi~ dential campaign of 1860. But what American does not want to know every word of that sketch, to learn just exactly how Lincoln estimated his own early career?
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Excerpt from University Library of Autobiography: Including All the Great Autobiographies and the Autobiographical Data Left by the World's Famous Men and Women
There is a sad contrast between the child Victoria's happi ness and the sorrows of that other royal child autobiographer, poor Marie Therese of France, who had only just been re stored to her royal court when Victoria was born. Democracy had come to England mildly, through legislation, not with fire and sword and guillotine as in France.
Other lands had still to win it. Our volume includes the autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi, that splendid lion-like Italian who fought to make Italy free. He fought also in South America aiding to unchain the peoples there; and never did any novelist 's dashing romance tell of. More hairbreadth escapes, more daring and heroic ventures than thrill from every page of Garibaldi 's memoirs. Some foolish person once said that Romance was dead in our modern world. Why, in Garibaldi 's story she has not even changed the ancient weapons of her trade.
One might almost say the same of Lincoln, America's mar tyr president, who comes within the limits of this period. He also was a great romantic hero, a rustic knight of chivalry rewinning a forgotten birthright by deeds of glorious em prise. The only sketch of his own life that Lincoln ever wrote was brief. He sent it to a friend to prepare for the presi~ dential campaign of 1860. But what American does not want to know every word of that sketch, to learn just exactly how Lincoln estimated his own early career?
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.
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With this volume we reach the great scientific autobiographies which had been previsioned by the work of John Stuart Mill. We reach also the period of a real democracy so genuine that we find a queen keeping a diary like any simpler young woman. This was Queen Victoria, probably the best loved sovereign who ever reigned in England. She began a diary long even before she succeeded to the throne at the age of seventeen, and she continued it until the eve of her wedding. Its publication has only recently been permitted by the British government, though one can hardly see why there should have been delay even during the good queens life in giving to the world this charming, simple, girlish record, with its childish pictures of the solemn coronation, its young girl's fear of her formidable ministers, and all the little queens brave wish to do her duty.
There is a sad contrast between the child Victoria's happiness and the sorrows of that other royal child autobiographer, poor Marie Therese of France, who had only just been restored to her royal court when Victoria was born. Democracy had come to England mildly, through legislation, not with fire and sword and guillotine as in France.
Other lands had still to win it. Our volume includes the autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi, that splendid lion-like Italian who fought to make Italy free. He fought also in South America aiding to unchain the peoples there; and never did any novelist's dashing romance tell of more hairbreadth escapes, more daring and heroic ventures than thrill from every page of Garibaldi's memoirs. Some foolish person once said that Romance was dead in our modern world. Why, in Garibaldi's story she has not even changed the ancient weapons of her trade.
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.
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