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This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Smith, Elder, & Co. in London, 1898.
A fascinating first-hand account of the life of a prominent 18th century English farmer, scholar, and writer. Young's autobiography provides valuable insights into contemporary agricultural practices, the intellectual life of the era, and the experience of travel in Europe and North America during the late 1700s. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Excerpt from The Autobiography of Arthur Young Englishman was more truly English; never English man was less narrow in his social sympathies. The religious melancholia of his later years is explicable on several grounds: to the influence of his friend, the great Wilberforce; to the crushing sorrow Of his beloved little daughter 'bobbin's' death lastly, perhaps, to exaggerated self-condemnation for foibles of his youth. Few lives have been more many-sided, more varied; few, indeed, have been more fortunate and unfortunate at the same time. The Memoirs, whilst necessarily abridged and arranged, are given precisely as they were written - that is to say, although it has been necessary to omit m...