Excerpt from The Principles of Agriculture, Vol. 1 of 2 Very little would have been known of his early years of boyhood, and his academics] life, were it not for some manuscripts found amongst his papers after his death, and a letter addressed to his future consort, headed, 'my Life and Cafgfem'm, for Pfiz'lzjgpz'ne in which he thus ex pressed himself My father was a cool-tempered and unaffected man. Every one who came in contact with him knew his straightforward way of acting, his scrupulous honesty; but few, very few, of his friends knew his noble and manly heart. Indifferent to praise and fame, as well as calumny, he was ever anxious to do good in silence. 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.