Excerpt from My BookIn presenting this volume of selections, gathered from the mass of my writings - from publications of various kinds and from those reserved from publica tion, I maybe pardoned for a little conceit in stating that every line in this book was put in type and page-form by myself, in the quiet of my room, during my leisure hours, while I was a clerk in the War Department, - 'ah occupation most pleasing to me may it now be highly profitable.I should like to append to the above statement a short account of some of the events of my life varied by a thousand incidents outside the common experiences, since I left my father's door, to make my own path in the world, in 1833, when I was eleven years old but perhaps the public would not care to follow me in the narrative.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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