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Others, again, write their own life from a different motive - from fear that the vampires of literature might make it their prey.
I have frequently had applications to write my life, both from my countrymen and from foreigners. Some caterers for the public offered to pay me for it. Others required that I should pay them for its insertion; others offered to insert it without charge. One proposed to give me a quarter of a column gratis, and as many additional lines of eloge as I chose to write and pay for at ten-pence per line. To many of these I sent a list of my works, with the remark that they formed the best life of an author; but nobody cared to insert them.
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
Charles Babbage
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780266515739
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
Page Count - 514
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Contributors
Author
Charles Babbage
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781334846397
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
Page Count - 516
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