The Life of Garibaldi
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- ISBN: 978-1-5378-0938-0
- EAN: 9781537809380
- Produktnummer: 25695762
- Verlag: Jovian Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 503 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'058 KB
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In commencing an account of my life, it would be unpardonable in me to omit speaking of my kind parents. My father, a sailor, and the son of a sailor, educated me in the best manner he could in Nice, my native city, and afterwards trained me to the life of a seaman in a vessel with himself. He had navigated vessels of his own in his youth; but a change of fortune had compelled him afterwards to serve in those belonging to his father. He used often to tell his children that he would gladly have left them richer; but I am fully convinced that the course which he adopted in our education was the best he possibly could have taken, and that he procured for us the best instructors he was able, perhaps sometimes at the expense of his own convenience. If, therefore, I was not trained in a gymnasium, it was by no means owing to his want of desire...
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