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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
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RECOLLECTIONS OF A REBEL REEFER BY JAMES MORRIS MORGAN/ With
Illustrations PREFACE SAID a writer in Blackwood's Magazine many
years ago: "None but kings and egoists are fit to indite the record
of their lives. The king knows himself to be the first of his
world, and what to the king is knowledge is to the egoist a
confident belief. Pride, then, personal and overwhelming, is
essential to the perfect autobiography; and if the pride be simple
enough, we may perhaps dispense with the other great
quality--self-knowledge. For though it obscure reality, pride can
create a phantom at once improving and consistent. Nequidquam sapit
qui sibi non sapit, wrote Cicero." The following account of some of
my experiences in life will have at least the merit of simplicity,
and, the story being about myself, I ask indulgence for its
unavoidable egotism. It has been said that "adventures come only to
him who seeks them," but I am doubtful of the correctness of this
adage, for I can truthfully say that I had as little to do with the
shaping of my course in life as has an empty bottle thrown
overboard in mid-ocean. I spent the most important years of a boy's
life, those between fifteen and nineteen, so far as education and
the formation of character are concerned, tied to a sword and in
the midst of a most cruel war, and when peace came I was wafted
hither and thither, the sport of the fickle winds of varying
fortune; and, having "sailed 'neath alien skies and trod the desert
path," naturally I imagine that I have met with some adventures out
of the usual run of the average schoolboy's experiences, and if I
have written some of them down, it has been with the laudable
desire of amusing other people rather than personal vanity or
desire for notoriety.
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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