Gilbert Frankland Lewis
Published: 2017-09-17
Total Pages: 464
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Excerpt from Letters of the Right Hon. Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart: To Various Friends It may then be enquired, why are they printed? Why are they not suffered to remain in that privacy for which no doubt they were intended? I would answer that three reasons have mainly contributed to their publication. The first, because they forcibly illustrate the character, the intellect and learning, and the wisdom of their remarkable writer. The second, because they contain many facts, and relate to many subj ects in which the public cannot but take interest, and respecting which, I believe, they will be glad to know the Opinions of the author. The third, because some of Sir George Lewis's friends - and especially two of them, to whom he was deeply attached and who were equally attached to him - were earnestly desirous that they should be printed. 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.