Edinburgh: A Historical Study (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Maxwell, Herbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1333672098 ISBN 13: 9781333672096

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from Edinburgh<br/><br/>IT was told of the devoted and thoroughly compe tent secretary of a certain Antiquarian Society that, when he retired on a pension earned by his long service, he ceased to Show any interest in archaeology. When a friend expressed surprise that he should so completely have abandoned the study which had absorbed the energy of his active years, he replied: Well, I have had more than my share of it, and now I wish to God there were nothing older in the world than a new-laid egg! If, as is not improbable, the reader should find in the following pages more of a dead past than is to his taste, it will be fortunate for the author if impatience finds no sharper expression than by a sen tence, I think, in one of Lord Morley's books, to the effect that he did not in the least want to know what had happened in the past, except as it enabled him to see more clearly through what was happening in the present. So it is with the ancient capital of Scotland. To enter into the Spirit of the place as a visitor  to love it intelligently as a citizen thereof  some know ledge of its chequered past is essential.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1333672098
• ISBN 13: 9781333672096
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 466
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