Excerpt from The Banks of the Boro: A Chronicle of the County of Wexford The reader is entitled to some apology for the persond intrusion of the chronicler into his history, and here it is In I 8 5 6, when the following pages were written, he neithel wished nor expected that his name should ever be author on the title-page of a book. Accordingly, re his alias of Harry Whitney, which his first attempt, The Legends of Mount Leinster, ' ventured to take up a quiet position among the kindly sonages of his new drama, saying ...
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Excerpt from The Banks of the Boro: A Chronicle of the County of Wexford The reader is entitled to some apology for the persond intrusion of the chronicler into his history, and here it is In I 8 5 6, when the following pages were written, he neithel wished nor expected that his name should ever be author on the title-page of a book. Accordingly, re his alias of Harry Whitney, which his first attempt, The Legends of Mount Leinster, ' ventured to take up a quiet position among the kindly sonages of his new drama, saying little and doing 1088, still slightly accelerating the progress of the story. The advice of Mr. Macmillan, the eminent of the Fictions of the Irish Celts, ' which last October, he acknowledged the authorship, further persistence in disguise w In revising the manuscript for press removed his double altogeth ar, but found would be equivalent to the reconstruction portion of the work. Were needful, and of neither valuable commodity any provision at hand. Such being the case siderate reader will please to show indulgence, an the writer as a hearty sympathiser with the spirit scription which, as the late estimable scholar. 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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