Hugh Swinton Legaré (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Ramage, Burr James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331160243 ISBN 13: 9781331160243

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Hugh Swinton Legaré

More attention has been devoted to these outward appear ances of Legaré than would otherwise have been done for several reasons. In the first place, this painful experience of his early years cut him off from many of those outdoor sports which make up the chief joys of a normally consti tuted lad, and, added to the inspiration of his mother, caused him to turn to intellectual pursuits with an ambition that never afterwards forsook him. To the same bodily defects may be traced, moreover, a certain hesitating, shrinking, sensitive disposition which at times pained and disappointed even his closest friends. And here and there in his writ ings, especially in his letters, one can detect a certain ia describable note of sadness, no doubt the outcome of a deep-seated morbidness.

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Excerpt from Hugh Swinton Legaré

The career of Hugh Swinton Legaré was that of a scholar in politics. It is scarcely too much to say that of the Southern statesmen of the old regime he was not only the most gifted but by all odds the best acquainted with the various arts that go to make up a well-informed man of the world. As lawyer, orator, author, statesman, diplomatist, and cabinet officer - for he was all these in the brief life vouchsafed him - we shall find him always exhibiting the same devotion to high ideals, the same independence of judgment and of action that formed on of the leading traits of his character and won for him the confidence and esteem even of those who might have differed from him in politics. These moral qualities he acquired partly through inheritance, partly by reason of the circumstances surrounding his early life.

Of Scottish extraction on his mother's side, he gained from his father a Huguenot name as well as many of the characteristics of that sect. Born of Charleston, S. C., January 2, 1797, Legare was a great-great-grandson of Solomon Legare, a French Huguenot, who emigrated to America when about twenty years of age on account of the religious controversies that shook his native land throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century. According to family tradition, the father of the Huguenot was a Roman Catholic of liberal tendencies whose home was on the Loire, not far from the town of Lyons.

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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.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331160243
• ISBN 13: 9781331160243
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32