Excerpt from Self-Consciousness of Noted PersonsThe almost universal passion of the human race to do some thing worthy of remembrance is not only serviceable, but laud able and yet the world forbids, even to the most exalted merit, the privilege of self-applause, or of blowing one's own trumpet.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.