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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1809. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> THE task which the desire of my friends and my own sense of duty have at length prevailed on me to undertake is painful and difficult of execution however soothing the consciousness of having fulfilled it may in time prove to my feelings. When you first urged me to do what perhaps I alone am able to do namely to give a full and accurate character of a man neither correctly known nor justly appretiated but by myself and those who saw him in his most do-mestic hours I shrunk with terror from your proposal;-for I knew not only that I must be considered as a partial. and therefore a blind narrator but that my wish to be just and correct would expose me to the risk of appearing frivolous and minute while my desire of expressing such feelings only as my readers could go along with” would lead me on the other hand to incur the danger of being cold and insipid. (MP)