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Like Most Other Children, Who Should Be My Godfather Is Decided By Mammon--So Precocious As To Make Some Noise In The World And Be Hung A Few Days After I Was Born--Cut Down In Time And Produce A Scene Of Bloodshed--My Early Propensities Fully Developed By The Choice Of My Profession Those Who May Be Pleased To Honour These Pages With A Perusal, Will Not Be Detained With A Long Introductory History Of My Birth, Parentage, And Education. The Very Title Implies That, At This Period Of My Memoirs,
Shewing The Wholesome Uses Drawn From Recording The Achievements Of Those Wonderful Productions Of Nature Called Great Men. As It Is Necessary That All Great And Surprising Events, The Designs Of Which Are Laid, Conducted, And Brought To Perfection By The Utmost Force Of Human Invention And Art, Should Be Produced By Great And Eminent Men, So The Lives Of Such May Be Justly And Properly Styled The Quintessence Of History. In These, When Delivered To Us By Sensible Writers, We Are Not Only Most