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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO LIONEL LINCOLN. -90- I.v this tale there are one or two slight ana' ehronisms; which, if unnoticed, might, with literal readers, draw some unpleasant imputations on its veracity ?They relate rather to persons than to things. As they are believed to be quite in character, connected with circumstances much more probable than facts, and to possess all the harmony of poetic colouring, the author is utterly unable to discover the reason why they are not true. He leaves the knotty point to the instinctive sagacity of the critics. The matter of this Legend may be pretty equally divided into that which is publicly, and that which is privately certain. For the authorities of the latter, the author refers to the foregoing preface; but he cannot dispose of the sources whence he has derived the former, with so little ceremony The good people of Boston are aware of the creditable appearance they make in the early annals of the confederation, and they neglect no commendable means to perpetuate the glories of their ancestors. In consequence, the inquiry after his torical facts, is answered, there, by an exhibition of local publications, that no other town in the union can equal. Of these means the author hat endeavoured to avail himself; collating wi'h care and selecting, as he trusts, with son.e of tha know ledge of men and things which is necessary to present a faithful picture. Wherever he may have failed, he has done it honestly. He will not take leave of the ' cradle of liberty, ' without expressing his thanks for the facilities which have been so freely accorded to his undertaking. If he has not been visited by aerial brings, and those fair visions that poets best love to cr ate, he is certain he will not be misconceived whe he says, that he has been honoured...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459043275 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459043278 |
| Weight | 1.05 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 In |
| List Price | $23.28 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 322 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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