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Excerpt from Tales and Sketches for the Fireside: By the Best American Authors But, although such a work as Mr. Irving has undertaken seems to us tremely well suited to his peculiar tal ents, and likely to do not less credit 'to him as the author, than to Washing ton as the subject of it, still it cannot be denied, that these historical bio graphies have, also, their peculiar diffi culties. 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.
