Thomas Edie Hill
Published: 2016-10-25
Total Pages: 338
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Excerpt from Hill's Album of Biography and Art: Containing Portraits and Pen-Sketches of Many Persons Who Have Been and Are Prominent as Religious, Military Heroes, Inventors, Financiers, Scientists, Explorers, Writers, Physicians, Actors, Lawyers, Musicians, Artists, Poets, Sovereigns, Humorists From the multitude of representative characters, these names are chosen. The record of their life-work reveals some faults to be avoided and many virtues worthy of imitation. Nearly all these biographies teach lessons which the youth of the land will find profitable for study. 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.