Letters From France in 1802 - 1 Author:Henry Redhead Yorke Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1804 Original Publisher: Printed for H.D. Symonds by Bye and Law Subjects: France History / Europe / France Travel / Europe / France Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. Wh... more »en 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 books for free. Excerpt: PREFAC E. IT is right the reader should know that these Letters were not only written in (N 1802, but that a great part of them were actually printed in that year; since which, s- until the present moment, they have re- . mained in the hands of the printer. Hav- ing made no pledge, I do not conceive myself bound to assign the motive which V induced me to withhold them from the world, but the most cursory perusal of them, will render any further explanation unnecessary. " Many authors have travelled with an S intention of submitting to their countrymen the result of their inquiries ; and on their return home, have quietly composed in their closets, a series of Letters for the press, which every one knows, were never sent from the countries that they had A 2 visited. visited. There is no fault to be found with this method; on the contrary, it is perhaps, the most correct, provided the writer asserts merely what he had previously ascertained, and noted for future use. When the. manners of a people, and the character of a government are about to be described, the most retentive memory ought not to be exclusively trusted. But, in either case, the easy familiarity of the epistolary style is the best which can be employed. This style I have adopted in these volumes, from necessity; the greater part of them having been written in Paris, for the information of a respected and learned friend, whose enfeebled state of health, inclined him to resort to the milder climate of...« less