Excerpt from The Life of George Washington The enterprising proprietors of the En cyclopaedia Britannica requested the late Lord macaulay to prepare the article on Washington, for the new Edition of that Work now in course of publication. His other engagements prevented his comply ing with their request, and thinking also that it would, on some accounts, be de sirable that the memoir of Washington should be written by a countryman, he advised the Messrs. Black to apply to me. 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.