Excerpt from The Eton Miscellany: Vol; I.-II Without doubt, the first question of my reader will be, Who is Bartholomew Bouverie? In this 'age'of auto-biography, Bartholomew shall answer for himself. To begin, then, ab ovo I was hatched at the house of my parents, Jeremiah 'and Rebecca Bo'uverie, on the day which was signalized by the victory over the French at Corunna} from which event my mother drew omens of my future greatness, probably forgetting that whatever chance of success I might derive from the auspicious circumstances of my birth, was to be shared in common with at.least five thousand A 2. 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.