Excerpt from A Hand Book of Business in Lowell: With a History of the City In preparing this historic outline, my chief purpose has been, to seize on the salient points, facts, incidents and events of our urban history, together with such traditions and episodes as have any local interest and to weave the whole together in the form of a readable and interesting narrative The character of the work did not admit of minute details, a display of erudition, or a parade of rhetoric. The solemn monotony and stately dignity of ...
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Excerpt from A Hand Book of Business in Lowell: With a History of the City In preparing this historic outline, my chief purpose has been, to seize on the salient points, facts, incidents and events of our urban history, together with such traditions and episodes as have any local interest and to weave the whole together in the form of a readable and interesting narrative The character of the work did not admit of minute details, a display of erudition, or a parade of rhetoric. The solemn monotony and stately dignity of history, - the painful particularity and prudish precision of chronologers and almanac-makers, - have been freely sacrificed for the lively flow of story. I acknowledge, with pleasure, my obligations to the City Clerk, and to various individuals whose names delicacy forbids me to mention, for their politeness in favoring me with the use of records and documents, which have aided me much in the composition of this work. Far from wishing to cultivate in the breasts of my readers a sentimental attachment to a place confessedly deficient in intel lectual attractiveness and the charms of a refined social atmosphere, - I still cherish the h0pe, that the perusal of these pages maytend to awaken that due sense of local pride, that patriotic public Spirit, the absence of which, among us, has so often been the subject of criticism, both from strangers and residents, heretofore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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