Tudor Tracts, 1532-1588, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

Name: Tudor Tracts, 1532-1588, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
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By Pollard, A. F.

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But it is not echoes we hear in this and its fellow-volumes; it is the original voices themselves. They speak in no borrowed accents; no interpreter mars their meaning; no medium muffles their tones. History is a glass through which we behold the past; but the glass is coloured by the historians mind, and we see through it sometimes darkly. Contemporary writings are a glass of truth, a mirror of the age in which they are written. If we seek to know how men thought, and felt, and talked in the days of bluff King Hal, or of Good Queen Bess, it is a sorry expedient to take down from the shelf the volumes of this or of that historian, however learned and accurate, brilliant or imaginative he may be. The golden rule is to ascend to the fountain-head, to imbibe historical truth at its source before it has lost its original purity in its tedious passage across the dusty arena of religious and secular controversy. Not that these Tudor Tracts contain the whole truth or nothing but the truth. They are perhaps as full of misrepresentations as the news-sheet and review of to-day, and errors of fact may crowd their pages as closely as those of the most brilliant of modern historians. Their writers were no more exempt than we from a human delight in error.
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for * at www.forgottenbooks.org But it is not echoes we hear in this and its fellow-volumes; it is the original voices themselves. They speak in no borrowed accents; no interpreter mars their meaning; no medium muffles their tones. History is a glass through which we behold the past; but the glass is coloured by the historians mind, and we see through it sometimes darkly. Contemporary writings are a glass of truth, a mirror of the age in which they are written. If we seek to know how men thought, and felt, and talked in the days of bluff King Hal, or of Good Queen Bess, it is a sorry expedient to take down from the shelf the volumes of this or of that historian, however learned and accurate, brilliant or imaginative he may be. The golden rule is to ascend to the fountain-head, to imbibe historical truth at its source before it has lost its original purity in its tedious passage across the dusty arena of religious and secular controversy. Not that these Tudor Tracts contain the whole truth or nothing but the truth. They are perhaps as full of misrepresentations as the news-sheet and review of to-day, and errors of fact may crowd their pages as closely as those of the most brilliant of modern historians. Their writers were no more exempt than we from a human delight in error.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for * at www.forgottenbooks.org

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 562
Release Date:: 2012-07-13
Publication Date:: 2012-07-13
Publisher:: Forgotten Books
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 1451005547
Weight:: 930 g

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