PREFACE.
There are few works, the authors of which can possibly be permitted to recommend them as worthy of universal regard, without the imputation of intolerable vanity; an imputation little likely to be diminished by the consideration, that other writers, over whom a decided preference is claimed, may have previously occupied the same subject.
A Life of Lord Nelson, however, replete with original anecdotes, many of them from the mouths of...
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