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Excerpt: "PREFACE The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics who aspire to the character of superior wisdom; but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestable proof of the good sense and profoundly philosophic temper of the present times. Of the numbers who study, or at least who read history, how few derive any advantage from their labours! The heroes of history are so decked out by the fine fancy of the professed historian; they talk in such measured prose, and act from such sublime or such diabolical motives, that few have sufficient taste, wickedness, or heroism, to sympathize in their fate. Besides, there is much uncertainty even in the best authenticated ancient or modern histories; and that love of truth, which in some minds is innate and immutable, necessarily leads to a love of secret memoirs and private anecdotes..."
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length17 hrs 38 mins
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Publish dateApr 18, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1TALES AND NOVELS,
26PREFACE
2PREFACE
27ENNUI; OR, MEMOIRS OF THE EARL OF GLENTHORN.
3CASTLE RACKRENT
28CHAPTER I.
4CONTINUATION OF THE MEMOIRS OF THE RACKRENT FAMILY.
29CHAPTER II
5GLOSSARY.
30CHAPTER III.
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6ESSAY ON IRISH BULLS
31CHAPTER IV.
7INTRODUCTION.
32CHAPTER V.
8CHAPTER I.
33CHAPTER VI.
9CHAPTER II.
34CHAPTER VII.
10CHAPTER III.
35CHAPTER VIII.
11CHAPTER IV.
36CHAPTER IX.
12CHAPTER V.
37CHAPTER X.
13CHAPTER VI.
38CHAPTER XI.
14CHAPTER VII.
39CHAPTER XII.
15CHAPTER VIII.
40CHAPTER XIII.
16CHAPTER IX.
41CHAPTER XIV.
17CHAPTER X.
42CHAPTER XV.
18CHAPTER XI.
43CHAPTER XVI.
19CHAPTER XII.
44CHAPTER XVII.
20CHAPTER XIII.
45CHAPTER XVIII.
21CHAPTER XIV.
46CHAPTER XIX.
22CONCLUSION.
47CHAPTER XX.
23APPENDIX.
48CHAPTER XXI.
24AN ESSAY ON THE NOBLE SCIENCE OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION.
49CHAPTER XXII.
25TALES OF FASHIONABLE LIFE.
50THE DUN.
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