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Excerpt from Biographical Notices of Persian Poets: With Critical and Explanatory Remarks; To Which Is Prefixed, a Memoir of the Late Right Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart;, Sometime Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia
IT was the peculiar good fortune of the sub jcet of the following memoir not only to become successful in the state of life to which he was originally devoted, but also, by a skilful use of those incidental Opportunities, of which great men alone can avail themselves, to attain very different and far greater eminence than he could have antici pated. Destined to a career essentially private, he attained to one of the most noble employments in the public service; and seeking to win a compe tence, was so happy as to win also honour, rank, and fame.
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