The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England

English

ISBN: 2819945589

EAN: 9782819945581

Publisher: pubOne.info

Release Date: 09/15/2010

Synopsis: pubOne.info present you this new edition. In this brief sketch I have chiefly endeavored to convey to the reader, not a record of what men did, but a sense of how they thought and felt about what they did. To give the quality and texture of the state of mind and feeling of an individual or class, to create for the reader the illusion (not DELUSION, O able Critic! ) of the intellectual atmosphere of past times, I have as a matter of course introduced many quotations; but I have also ventured to resort frequently to the literary device (this, I know, gives the whole thing away) of telling the story by means of a rather free paraphrase of what some imagined spectator or participant might have thought or said about the matter in hand. If the critic says that the product of such methods is not history, I am willing to call it by any name that is better; the point of greatest relevance being the truth and effectiveness of the illusion aimed at- the extent to which it reproduces the quality of the thought and feeling of those days, the extent to which it enables the reader to enter into such states of mind and feeling.

The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 235