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Tales And Novels - Volume 4 eBook

by Maria Edgeworth
language: english
Publisher: Outside the Box eBook Publishing, April of 2018 ‧
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Excerpt: "PREFACE The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics who aspire to the character of superior wisdom; but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestable proof of the good sense and profoundly philosophic temper of the present times. Of the numbers who study, or at least who read history, how few derive any advantage from their labours! The heroes of history are so decked out by the fine fancy of the professed historian; they talk in such measured prose, and act from such sublime or such diabolical motives, that few have sufficient taste, wickedness, or heroism, to sympathize in their fate. Besides, there is much uncertainty even in the best authenticated ancient or modern histories; and that love of truth, which in some minds is innate and immutable, necessarily leads to a love of secret memoirs and private anecdotes..."

Tales And Novels - Volume 4

by Maria Edgeworth

Property Description
ISBN: 9783962723026
Publisher: Outside the Box eBook Publishing
Release Date: April of 2018
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Fiction > Fiction
EAN: 9783962723026
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