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Life and Remains of the REV. R. H. Quick (Classic Reprint)
F Storr
Paperback. Forgotten Books 2015-09-27.
ISBN 9781331022381
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Excerpt from Life and Remains of the Rev. R. H. QuickSome apology is needed for the late appearance of these Memoirs. I have almost reached the period of incubation prescribed by Horace for a poem, and I cannot, as Dr Parkin does in his Life of Edward Thring, "wrap myself in my virtue" and plead imperative and Imperial duties as a justification for the delay. The only excuse I can offer is that the routine labours of a schoolmaster and journalist (in a humble way) have left me scant leisure, so that the work has had to be done mainly in my summer holidays.Nor was the task of selection and arrangement a light or easy one. The materials from which I have drawn consist Co, of forty Note-books of various dimensions, a life-record extending over more than a quarter of a century. These, if printed in extenso, would make, on a rough estimate, ten or eleven volumes of the same size as this one. The compression has been effected by rigorously excluding everything that was not either of professional interest to the teacher or illustrative of the writers mind and character. Thus I have sacrificed much bearing on politics, on general literature, on bibliography, and even in the matter of pedagogics I have chosen to err rather by defect than excess. The Note-books are at once a Diary and an Adversaria, a votive tablet that displays the whole life of the man, and to me as I read there was hardly a dull page in the forty volumes, but I am warned by recent biographies that the general reader would rather have too little than too much.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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
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