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Excerpt from Two Pictures, or What We Think of Ourselves, and What the World Thinks of Us
Hons! Home! I have had many resting places in my not very long life - this is my nineteenth birthday, - but l hat c had, and can have but one home. For eight years, I have not seen it with the bodily eye, and yet, how vivid ly it stands before me at this moment! A month ago, I determined to make a picture of it. The picture, to which I have given all my leisure hours, is done - hcre, in this record of thought and feeling, meant only for my self, I may say what I truly think, that it is well-done yet I am not satisfied. 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.