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Memoirs of the Early Life and Service of a Field Officer [d. Price] on the Retired List of the Indian Army
Memoirs of the Early Life and Service of a Field Officer on the Retired List of the Indian Army - d. Price Author:David Price General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Without further preliminary, I shall therefore proceed to state -- that some time in the year 1762, I drew my first breath, in a secluded valley among the mountainous districts of South Wales, about eight miles beyond the ancient and pleasingly situated county town, Brecknock. My father was at that period, the humble curate of the parish in which I was born: but having, by his acknowledged acquirements in the learned languages, obtained the notice of his diocesan, Dr. Moss, then bishop of St. David's, he was shortly after my birth, preferred to the living of Llanbadarn-vawr, near Aberystwith, in the county of Cardigan. I was left to pass the period of infancy at the house of my grandfather, a respectable freeholder, proud of his descent from one of the feudatories of the Norman William, in an obscure village near Brecknock. About the age of six or seven, I was carried across the hills to Aberystwith : and I must then at least have arrived at years of observation, since I still retain a perfect remembrance of the awful impression made upon my mind, when the blue expanse of the sea first burst upon my view in tranquil sublimity, between the headlands which terminate the vale of Ystwith. At Aberystwith, towards the commencement of our unfortunate contest with the revolted colonies of America, that is sometime in the year 1775, my father died at the early age of forty-nine: leaving a bereaved and sorrowing widow with five orphan children, of whom I was the eldest boy, to lament the premature loss; and look to heaven alone for the competent means of sustaining life. The only circumstance that took place r...« less