Historical Letters, Originally Written for and Published in the Virginia Argus: Including a Brief but General View of the History of the World, Civil, ... the Year of Our Lord, 1811 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

John B. Colvin

9780267722136: Historical Letters, Originally Written for and Published in the Virginia Argus: Including a Brief but General View of the History of the World, Civil, ... the Year of Our Lord, 1811 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Historical Letters, Originally Written for and Published in the Virginia Argus: Including a Brief but General View of the History of the World, Civil, Military and Religious, From the Earliest Times to the Year of Our Lord, 1811

You will find that it is a work of compilation, and not one ofinvention. History being the nar rative of what has transpired in the World, the chief mer1t derived from writing it consists in a scrupulous adherence to the truth of facts. But, at tl e same time, although theic is no scope in such a performance for the imagination, there is a great deal to interest and occupy the mind; and to those who have not already made the sub jects of it their study, it presents all the charms ofthe mostengaginn novelty. The utmost efforts of human genius can pourtray nothing more sur prizing than the incidents which the annals of the world furnish for our instruction and amuse ment. The images of fiction shrink before the more substantial forms of real life.

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