A Life of Archbishop Laud (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Life of Archbishop Laud I venture to claim for the following biography that it is one of the least original ever written. A great, if not the greater, part of it consists of extracts from the writings of others, chiefly contemporaries of its subject, and bearing directly or indirectly upon his history. Where I felt so disposed, I have written on my own account, and written freely; in other places, I have introduced my authorities and stood by while they told their own story in their own words. I hesitated long as to whether I should call this book a "Life of Laud," or "Materials for a Life of Laud," and it was only the clumsiness of the latter title which deterred me from making use of it. In making quotations from old books or manuscripts, it is a question whether the better course is to give them as they stand, or in modern spelling and phraseology. Some critics object to the former as wearisome, others to the latter as too commonly inaccurate. I have adopted both; but, for the most part, I have given the literal rendering; partly because the English of the period with which I had to deal was not so different from our own as to present difficulties, or prove unpalatable to the modern reader, and partly because a moderniser, like a translator, rarely succeeds in leaving all its original freshness and force in the work which he manipulates. I anticipate accusations from my critics of having gone too far afield in my attempts to throw side-lights upon the career of Laud. It may be that on this count I am guilty. 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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