Excerpt from Memoirs of Prince Eugene, of Savoy Though I should be far from seeking to deprecate the severity of criticism by the usual cant of literary delinquents, I think it a justice which I owe to myself to state, that the following Translation was begun, carried on, and completed, in intervals of a painful disorder, which left me little opportunity for the exertion of mental vigour, and which necessarily retarded the appearance of the work. Let this be some palliation of any negligences which may have escaped me: the mens sana is seldom possessed but in the corpore sano. 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.