Excerpt from The Life and Labours of Vincent NovelloPoffefiing a good ear, he had an aptitude for languages, and he was fent, with an elder brother, Francis, to a fchool at Huitmille, a village near Boulogne-fur-mer, to acquire French, in addition to his naturally-learnt Engli¿'i and Italian. It may be a circumfiance worth noting, that the veffel in which the two boys came back to England was the laf't boat that left France before war was declared between the two countries towards the clofe of the century.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.