Excerpt from The Birthday Dinner to Thomas Addis Emmet, M. D., LL. D., Given by His Professional Friends at Delmonico's, New York, May 29, 1905: With an Autobiographical NarrativeThe sentiment indicated by the collection could not be expressed better than in the words Of a dedication to The History Of the Emmet Family, Etc, which I wrote someyears ago for my children and their descendants, as follows With my love I dedicate this volume to my children, andado so with the hope that they may realize a just pride in the record of those who in the past have so honestly filled their station in life. A sentiment which, if properly appreciated, must needs bear good fruit from the example thus set forth for emulation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.