Excerpt from Diaries of Sir Daniel Gooch Baronet Sir daniel gooch left voluminous diaries; and it was his wish that extracts from these, either illustrative of his career, or bearing upon the works of national importance with which he was connected, should be made public. By industry, steady perseverance, and the influence of a character which inspired confidence in all with whom he was brought into contact, he had become, like Hbrace, ex humili potens, and, like Horace, he was justifiably proud of the fact. He had many friends, who, he naturally thought, might feel an interest in the story'of his life but perhaps his strongest reason for desiring to tell it was, that it might operate as a guiding light and incentive to the many who live by labour, to thousands of whom he was personally known, and the welfare of whose class was always present to his thoughts as an object to be steadily pursued. 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.