Excerpt from The Life of Alexander Hamilton, Vol. 1After the lapse ofmany years, I was requested to undertake this work; but a deep conviction of my incapacity, the want of the necessary prepar atory studies, and a distrust ofthe natural bias of my feelings, prompted me to decline it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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