Excerpt from Memoirs of the Professional Life of the Rights Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vice-Admiral of the White, Knight of the Order of the Bath, Duke of Bronte in Sicily, Grand Cross of the Orders of Ferdinand and of Merit: Comprehending Authentic and Circumstantial Details of His Glorious Achievements Under the British Flag, and a Sketch of His Parliamentary Conduct and Private CharacterI T is a truth universally acknowledged, that nothing more strongly tends to cherish those virtues which honour human nature, than the memoirs of characters who have been particularly distinguished by them. Independent of the interest which they never fail to excite, they scatter in generous minds seeds of emu lation, ch spring up, and in time produce noble fruit.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.