Author: Duncan ForbesPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528112642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Excerpt from Ane Account of the Familie of Innes I have said something of the author in the notes which I have added to his history (p. 191) and I have referred in many places to the honest care and industry with which he performed a conscientious task, neither glossing nor wresting facts, nor as serting anything unproved. It might have been possible to re-write his history more smoothly, and to array the pedigree and its proofs more systema tically from the contents of the family charter-chest. But a new history would have wanted some of the weight which a writer carries with him who wrote nearly two centuries ago, when he could take up the family traditions that still floated on the stream, which have been all scattered and drowned by his book - for after a story has been written, still more if it be printed, it is odds but the popular mind adopts the book as the best of legends. Moreover I must confess a partiality for old Duncan Forbes, his honest statement of doubts and puzzles, and his quaint philo Sophy, which I should be sorry to displace for anything 1 am able to put in its room. Thus the result has been that I have given Duncan Forbes's text, only somewhat more correct than the first Edition, using the author's original ms. As the best authority. 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.
