The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Vol. 3 of 4: With Biographical Sketches (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Vol. 3 of 4: With Biographical Sketches In every age and nation distinguished for arts and learning, the inclination of transmitting the memory and even the features of illustrious persons to posterity, has uniformly prevailed. The greatest poets, oretors, and historians, were contemporaries with the most celebrated painters, statuaries, and engravers of gems and medals, and the desire to he acquainted with a man's aspect, has ever risen in proportion to the known excellence of his character, and the admiration of his writings - Gannon. 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.