Excerpt from Gleanings From Pontresina and the Upper Engadine Many the statement might appear altogether too sweeping, and no one can deny that even a hard ened prefacer has certain inalienable rights and, like other criminals, cannot be deprived of such benefit as may come from a doubt. There have been writers and writers, prefaces and prefaces, and surely in the lapse of ages some of the former may have happened, however unintentionally, to present the truth in an introductory garb, while some of the latter may have been ...
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Excerpt from Gleanings From Pontresina and the Upper Engadine Many the statement might appear altogether too sweeping, and no one can deny that even a hard ened prefacer has certain inalienable rights and, like other criminals, cannot be deprived of such benefit as may come from a doubt. There have been writers and writers, prefaces and prefaces, and surely in the lapse of ages some of the former may have happened, however unintentionally, to present the truth in an introductory garb, while some of the latter may have been punctuated with a few desultory facts, if only from sheer perverse ness. Still, whether accurate or not, this conclu sion of a veteran observer may well cast a shadow over any author about to address himself to this. 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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