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Excerpt from Memoirs of Sir Philip Francis, K. C. B, Vol. 2 of 2: Correspondence and Journals
We have already had materials before us for judging, to a certain extent, of the character and disposition of Philip Francis. But the Greek proverb, that office shows what a man really is, ' was never more distinctly verified than in his case. Thrown as he was entirely on his own re sources when in India, almost Without friends qualified to be counsellors, between enemies on the one hand and dependents on the other, the peculiarities of his disposi tion, which comparative obscurity had hitherto kept in the background, exhibited themselves at once, and his merits and defects, as a chief among men and adminis trator of a great empire, came prominently forward: the latter, unfortunately, counterbalancing the former, rendering his great abilities almost useless, and casting a lurid Shade even over the real Virtues which he possessed. 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.
