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Excerpt from Personal Memoirs and Correspondence of Colonel Charles Shaw, K. C. T. S., &C of the Portuguese Service, and Late Brigadier-General, in the British Auxiliary Legion of Spain, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprising a Narrative of the War for Constitutional Liberty in Portugal and Spain, From Its Commencement in 1831 to the Dissolution of the British Legion in 1837
I am well aware of the defects of style in. This publication; but so little have I had it in my power to Open a book for these last seven years, and so much have I been accustomed to converse in the patois of four or five foreign languages, that I must surrender all clu'ms to the honour of being considered a literary man.
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