Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from American Annals of Education and Instruction, for the Year 1832, Vol. 2
Observation shows us, that to most men, biography is far more interesting than history. A part of the pleasure which all derive from perusing the memoirs of illustrious men, may be secured to the readers of history, by giving brief and spirited sketches of such dis linguished individuals, as, in the language of Napoleon, make his tory.' They are to historic composition, what episodes are to poetry. They relieve the mind, as it relieves the body to turn aside from the dull uniformity of a turnpike, to enter the beautiful dwellings that rise by the way side. It is due to those men, who have labored long and well in their country's service, that their characters should be written in their country's history, 'and carried down to latest time, ' and the instruction and admiration of posterity. History is sometimes made to turn on the fortunes of an individual; and then it possesses almost the witchery of romance.
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