Download or read book The Life of General Washington, First President of the United States, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of General Washington, First President of the United States, Vol. 1 of 2 The Author of the present work begs to state that through many Lives of Washington have been already written, none have been done on the plant of the present, namely, that of making the subject of the Memoir, as far as possible, his own Biographer. Fortunately, for this purpose, the materials are in sufficient abundance. It is well know that it was General Washington's custom, from a very early period, to record, in the form of Journals, Diaries, and Letters to public bodies or private correspondents of which he kept copies, all the most important incidents and circumstances of his life, from day to day. Out of these memorials, it was thought that such extracts and passages might be selected and brought together, as to give to the work, to a considerable extent, the interest, the authority, and even the form, of an Autobiography. There is reason to believe, too, that it was the expectation and wish of Washington that his Life should be thus written, for in several letters he expresses his conviction that his memoirs could not be written a satisfactory or effectual manner without a large selection from his papers. On this plan, therefore, as far as practicable, the present life has been written. The extracts from the writings of Washington, which constitute so considerable a portion of this Biography, have been drawn from various sources. About the Publisher 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.