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Excerpt from Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 1: With Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected It was difficult to give sketches of art, litera ture, and character, without making now and then some personal allusions; but though I have often sketched from the life, I have adhered throughout to this principle - never to give publi city to any name not already before the public, and in a manner public property. 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.