Excerpt from A Memoir of John Fanning Watson, the Annalist of Philadelphia and New York: Prepared by Request of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and Read in Their Hall, Monday Evening, February 11, 1861 On my asking him one day, how he, who had been so much engaged in a laborious profession, and so much in public life (he was at one time Attorney General of the United States), had acquired so thorough and accurate knowledge of 'the old Greek and Roman authors. He replied, that he read some one of them daily; and that he had done so for more than thirty years. 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.