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Search - Original Letters - Illustrative Of English History - Vol I

Original Letters Illustrative Of English History Vol I
Author: Henry Ellis

PREFACE. THEY who desire correct information of the History of their Country must not limit their reading LO the Work of the General Historian exclusively. History, confined to the greater events which it records, is usually certain and true but in the colouring which writers it, and which they are proud to call the philosophy of history, it is ... more »too frequently erroneous. Characters are drawn by those who could not know the persons they describe facts are imperceptibly perverted to the uses of party and events which owe their origin to the simplest, are often traced back to the remotest causes. Thus cir cumstances, History, however comprehensive in its view, partakes too much of the embellished nature of To remove doubts, to verify facts, and to form a clear conception of particular events, the read must seek subsidiary aid, in the dispersed inaterials of History of which, ORIGINAL. LETTERS of EMINEXT PERSOSS IN THE STATE form both the largest and the most i gprtanpt ortion and they exist in this Country, in an uninterrupted succession, a for more than five Centuries. These bear the impress of their respective tinlcs and, whilst many of them regard affairs in which the writers were actively engaged, all afford a closer aid more familiar view of characters, manners, and events, than the pen of the most accomplished compiler of regular history, even if h might be trusted, could supply They unravel causes of action which without their aid would be impenetrable and even throw new light upon parts of history which superficial readers suppose to be exhausted. How far the present Selection of Letters may deserve so good a character, the Reader must determine for himself. The Editor has been desirous of producing-a Work, which, while it exhibited within reasonable limits a series of historical Pictures, might be con sidered as A SUPPLEMENT TO OUK HISTORIES T . O rcllder it more acceptable, he has, here and tllcre, prefixed Introductions td particular Letters, in which - numerous traits and minute anecdotes bearing upon detached topics of history have been compacted and condensed. In the execution of this design the illustration of historical truth has been his sole object and he believes it will be found that these Introduc- tionsj as well as the Letters themselves, throw new light on various passages of our History. Many Readers, it is probable, will think the B earlier part of the Series of Letters here presented, of a forbidding aspect, on account of the uncouthness of the language...

ISBN-13: 9781408637579
ISBN-10: 140863757X
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 332
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