Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq. I did not form an adequate idea of the task in which I was'about to engage. The most voluminous and diffuse documents were consigned 'to my care, from which I had to extract whatever might be thought useful to the public, and (what was far more difficult) in which, I was to discoverand trace a connected thread of Mr. Sharp's progressive actions through his long and important Jife. That such a task would be tedious, it was easy to anticipate. But it has been further protracted by causes which could not be foreseen, - by the suffering of repeated illness since the period when I first printed my Prospectus - of illness aggravated not unfrequently by an apprehension that, as the real cause of the delay could be known only to a few, I might suffer no slight imputation of neglect in theperformance of what I had undertaken. 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.