Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Southey's Life of Nelson: Edited With Introduction and Notes
It is unnecessary \to take too seriously his own statement that, of all the attractions that Oxford offered, he availed himself only of Swimming and boating, paying as little regard to serious study as he had done at Westminster. To such an omnivorous reader as Southey, the cut - and dried curricula of School and college must have seemed too narrow and restricted; and one who had revelled in Beau mont and Fletcher before the age Of eight could be trusted ten years later to feed his mind on strong meats, though they may not have been such as the dons recommended. 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.
