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Search - Oliver Cromwell's Letters And Speeches With Elucidations - Vol I

Oliver Cromwell's Letters And Speeches With Elucidations Vol I
Author: Thomas Carlyle

THE First Edition of this Work having, contrary to expectation, spread itself abroad with some degree of impetus, has, as in that case was partly natural, brought me into correspondence with various possessors and collectors of Croinwell Letters has brought obliging contributions, and indications true and fallacious, from far sources and from ne... more »ar and, on the whole, has disinterred from their widespread slumber a variety of Letters not before known to me, or not before remembered by me. With which new Letters it became a rather complex question what was now to be done. They were not, in general, of much, or almost of any intrinsic importance might here and there have saved some ugly labour and research, had they been known in time but did not now, as it turned out, tend to modify, in any essential particular, what had already been set down, and sent forth to the world as a kind of continuous connected Book. It is true, all clearly authentic Letters of Cromwell, never so unimportant, do claim to be preserved and in this Book, by the title of it, are naturally to be looked for. But, on the other hand, how introduce them now To unhoop your cask again, and try to insert new staves, when the old staves, better or woke, do already hang together, is what no cooper will recommend Not to say, that pour Set of Crolnwell Letters can never, in this Second or in any other Edition, be considered as complete an uncounted handful of needles to be picked from an unmeasured continent of hay,-how can you ever assure yourself that you have them all After deliberation, the law of the case seemed to be somewhat as follows First, that whatever Letters would easily fit December 1845 themselves into the Book as it stood,-easily, or even with labour if that were all,-should be duly admitted. Second, that for such Letters as tended to bring into better relief any feature of the Man or his Work,-much more, had they tended to correct or alter in any respect any feature I had assigned to him or to i t that for these an effort should be made, if needful even a considerable effort effort, in fact, to be limited only by this consideration, Not to damage by it to a still greater degree the already extant, and so by ones effort accomplish only loss. Thirdly, that for such Cromwell Letters as did not fall under either of these descriptions, but were nevertheless clearly of his composition, there should be an Appendix provided. In which, without pretension to commentary, and not needing to be read along with the Text, but only apart from it if at all, they might at least stand correctly printed -they, and certain other Pieces of more doubtful claim for most part Letters too, but of half, or in some cases of wholly, official character-if by chance they were elucidative, brief, and not easily attainable elsewhere. Into which Appendix also, as into a loose back-room or lumberroom, not bound to be organic or habitable, bound only to be maintained in a reasonably swept condition, any still nem Letters of Cromwell might without ceremony be disposed. Upon these principles this Second Edition has been produced. New Letters intercalated into the Text, and Letters lying in loose rank in the Appendix, all that I had, or could hear of or get any trace of hitherto, are here given. For purchasers of the First Edition, the new matter has been detached, printed as a Supplement, which the Bookseller undertakes to sell at prime cost...

ISBN-13: 9781408636428
ISBN-10: 1408636425
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 440
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