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Excerpt from The Life of Sir Martin Archer Shee, Vol. 1 of 2: President of the Royal Academy, P. R. S., D. C. L There is, however, one inconvenient result of this state of mind, a result which family biography is peculiarly in danger of exhibiting, -viz. A tendency to give, in narration, an undue prominence or importance to details deriving their chief interest from the personal relations of the author with the individual whose actions he is recording or commemorating. I should be well pleased to think that the accompanying pages were substanti ally free from all liability to such an imputation; but I am far from experiencing a feeling of perfect security on this point, -which I must abandon to the charitable judgment of the reader. 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.