Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Threescore Years
It is indispensable that a book writer should be well acquainted with the language in which he writes, - also his subject.
The responsibility, or success of this volume, I throw upon those of my friends who have urged me to write it, as the following extract will show.
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