Samuel Pepys
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Excerpt from Samuel Pepys: Administrator, Observer, Gossip It is inevitable that any book on Pepys should have long and frequent quotations from his Diary - inevitable also that however much is put in much that is interesting, amusing, and characteristic should be left out. No re-telling of Pepys´ Diary is to be tolerated, and that is the justification for ample quotation, for there is neither gain nor wisdom in attempting to turn his own inimitable phrases into a modern and most inferior version. So wherever a thing can be told in Pepys´ words I have so told it - any one who writes of him, at the best, can only be a showman, and the place of a showman is in the background when the principal actor is on the stage. Or in the metaphor of Sir Walter Scott: "The subject is like a good sirloin, which requires only to be basted with its own drippings" - therefore discreet cook and retiring showman are the humble parts I have attempted in this book. To all lovers of Pepys there is one name that at once leaps to mind - the name of Mr. H. B. Wheatley, and to his invaluable edition of the Diary, to his Pepysiana, and to Samuel Pepys and the World he Lived In, I am much in debt. 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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