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Excerpt from Tudor Tracts, 1532-1588
OF all the forms and methods of historical representation, the best is said to be that which echoes original voices. But it is not echoes we hear in this and its fellow-volumes; it is the original voices themselves. They speak in no borrowed accents; no interpreter mars their meaning; no medium muf?es their tones. History is a glass through which we behold the past; but the glass is coloured by the historian's mind, and we see through it sometimes darkly. Contemporary writings are a glass of truth, a mirror of the age in which they are written. If we seek to know how men thought, and felt, and talked in the days of bluff King Hal, or of Good Queen Bess, it is a sorry expedient to take down from the shelf the volumes of this or of that historian, however learned and accurate, brilliant or imaginative he may be. The golden rule is to ascend to the fountain-head, to imbibe historical truth at its source before it has lost its original purity in its tedious passage across the dusty arena of religious and secular controversy.
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OF all the forms and methods of historical representation, the best is said to be that which echoes original voices. But it is not echoes we hear in this and its fellow-volumes; it is the original voices themselves. They speak in no borrowed accents; no interpreter mars their meaning; no medium muf?es their tones. History is a glass through which we behold the past; but the glass is coloured by the historian's mind, and we see through it sometimes darkly. Contemporary writings are a glass of truth, a mirror of the age in which they are written. If we seek to know how men thought, and felt, and talked in the days of bluff King Hal, or of Good Queen Bess, it is a sorry expedient to take down from the shelf the volumes of this or of that historian, however learned and accurate, brilliant or imaginative he may be. The golden rule is to ascend to the fountain-head, to imbibe historical truth at its source before it has lost its original purity in its tedious passage across the dusty arena of religious and secular controversy.
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.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - A. F. Pollard
Hardback
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ISBN - 9780260366351
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
Page Count - 556
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ISBN - 9781330749319
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
Page Count - 558
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