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Excerpt from History of Christian Names
I cannot put forth this attempt without a few words of apology for having undertaken it at all. The excuse is, chie?y, the attraction that the subject has had for me for at least twenty years, from the time when it was first taken up as matter of amusement. The difficulty of gaining information, and the inconsistencies of such as I did acquire, convinced me that the ground was almost untrodden but the further I advanced on it, the more I perceived that it required a perfect acquaintance with language, philology, ethnology, hagiology, universal history, and provincial antiquities and to me these were so many dark alleys, up which I only made brief excursions to knock my head against the wall of my own ignorance.
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I cannot put forth this attempt without a few words of apology for having undertaken it at all. The excuse is, chie?y, the attraction that the subject has had for me for at least twenty years, from the time when it was first taken up as matter of amusement. The difficulty of gaining information, and the inconsistencies of such as I did acquire, convinced me that the ground was almost untrodden but the further I advanced on it, the more I perceived that it required a perfect acquaintance with language, philology, ethnology, hagiology, universal history, and provincial antiquities and to me these were so many dark alleys, up which I only made brief excursions to knock my head against the wall of my own ignorance.
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
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Charlotte M. Yonge
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780331706567
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
Page Count - 626
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Contributors
Author
Charlotte M. Yonge
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781333588793
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm
Page Count - 628
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