Excerpt from The Life of Ralph Bernal Osborne, M. P However faithfully we endeavoured to portray the man, it was impossible to give the general public any fair and true idea of that strong-built frame, that ex pressive face, that falcon eye, and that powerful voice which knew so well how to modulate its tones, either to gain the attention of society or the senate. And so reluctantly we gave up the idea of publishing a memoir of Berna] Osborne. A man's life is after all only an atom in a generation, and a generation is but an item in history. 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.