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It may, I think, claim at least a tolerable fidelity to the facts of its date as they are give in ordinary records. Whenever any evidence of the words really spoken or written by the characters in their various situations was attainable, as close a paraphrase has been aimed at as was compatible with the form chosen. And in all cases outside the oral tradition, accessible scenery, and existing relics, my indebtedness for detail to the abundant pages of the historian, the biographer, and the journalist, English and Foreign, has been, of course, continuous. It was thought proper to introduce, as supernatural spectators of the terrestrial action, certain impersonated abstractions, or Intelligences, called Spirits. They are intended to be taken by the reader for what they may be worth as contrivances of the fancy merely. Their doctrines are but tentative, and are advanced with little eye to a systematized philosophy warranted to lift "the burthen of the mystery" of this unintelligible world. The chief thing hoped for them is that they and their utterances may have dramatic plausibility enough to procure for them, in the words of Coleridge, "that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith.
| ISBN-13 | 9781547060443 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1547060441 |
| Weight | 2.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.98 x 1.51 x 9.02 In |
| List Price | $25.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 758 pages |
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Published On | 2017-06-06 |
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