Memoir of Mr. Ralph Isham Brown

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Memoir of Mr. Ralph Isham Brown: Late Principal of the Female Seminary in Pawtuxet, R. I It is not presumed that the following Memoir will be as interesting to those who were unacquainted with Mr. Brown, as many similar works already before the public. He died so young that his powers of mind were but partially developed, and lived so much in retirement that his efforts to do good were comparatively few. It cannot be expected that a life so short, and spent principally in the retirement of study, should furnish incidents sufficiently numerous and important to make the work very interesting. It will therefore be enquired why the work is published. We reply, it is designed principally for the friends of Mr. Brown, and to them it will possess an additional interest, from their acquaintance with him. Again, for the reason above stated, hundreds will read the work, and we hope be benefitted by it, who do not possess those works which are more interesting. In justice to Mr. Brown we remark, it is probable he had not the most distant expectation that his writings would ever be published. His Letters were hastily written, and his reflections in his Diary were the plain and simple overflowings of his heart when in retirement. 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.