Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365168300
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Excerpt from The Whigs of Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2: Or the Last of the Stuarts; An Historical Romance of the Scottish Persecution I Pleasant to the soul, is the remembrance of the days of other years! History can lay before us only a general detail. Events, their causes and consequences, are the legitimate, and almost only attainable objects of the historian. Mor 3 than this it would be impossible for him to accomplish. Materials for minute details, are not usually preserved. And it would be utterly impolitic to attempt more. The tedious delineations would render his voluminous history inaccessible to the great majority of his readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
