Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
MARGOT ASQUITH AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TWO VOLUMES IN ONE I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY HUSBAND What? Have you not received powers, to the limits of which you will bear all that befalls? Have you not received magnanimity? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?-- EPICTETUS
PREFACE.
My acknowledgments are due to Dr. Smiles's "Lives of the Engineers,"
"Life of the Stephensons," and "Life of a Scotch Naturalist;" to Lady
Eastlake's "Life of Gibson;" to Mr. Holden's "Life of Sir William
Herschel;" to M. Seusier's "J. F. Millet, Sa Vie et Ses OEuvres;" and to
Mr. Thayer's "Life of President Garfield;" from which most of the facts
here narrated have been derived.
G. A.
I.
THOMAS TELFORD, STONEMASON.
High up among the heather-clad hills which form the broad dividing
MARGOT ASQUITH AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TWO VOLUMES IN ONE I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO MY HUSBAND What? Have you not received powers, to the limits of which you will bear all that befalls? Have you not received magnanimity? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?-- EPICTETUS