Excerpt from The Life-Story and Personal Reminiscences of Col. John Sobieski: A Lineal Descent of King John III of Poland; To Which Is Added His Popular Lecture "the Republic of Poland" And a Brief History of Poland The late Dr. Benjamin Jowett ofthe University of Oxford once said: We shall come in the future to teach almost entirely by biography. We shall begin with the life that is most familiar to us, the life of Christ, and we shall more and more put before our children the great examples of persons' lives, so that they shall have from the beginning heroes and friends in their thoughts. 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.