The Memoir Of John Lothrop Motley
My habits here for the present year are very regular. I came here, having, as I thought, finished my work, or rather the first Part (something like three or four volumes, 8vo), but I find so much original matter here, and so many emendations to make, that I am ready to despair. However, there is nothing for it but to penelopize, pull to pieces, and stitch away again. Whatever may be the result of my labor, nobody can say that I have not worked like a brute beast,--but I don't care for the result. The labor is in itself its own reward and all I want. I go day after day to the archives here (as I went all summer at the Hague), studying the old…
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- ISBN: 978-1-161-47042-0
- EAN: 9781161470420
- Produktnummer: 34570892
- Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Masse: H26.0 cm x B18.3 cm x D1.1 cm 453 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 453
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