The Eye-Witness

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Excerpt from The Eye-Witness: Being a Series of Descriptions and Sketches in Which It Is Attempted to Reproduce Certain Incidents and Periods in History, as From the Testimony of a Person Present at Each In the sketches of which this book is composed, the author has attempted, upon the model of one vivid experience, to reconstruct certain passages of the past. In each he has accumulated as well as he could such evidence for detail as would make an actual presentment of history rather than an aid to its realisation. The hours, the colours, the landscape, the weather, the language, are, as far as his learning permitted, the hours, the colours, the landscape, the weather, the language of the times and places he describes. The reader will of course distinguish between those episodes in which the actors and events are purely imaginary (as, for example, in "The Christian"), those in which some part only of the actors are real (as in "The Familiar"), and those in which every detail of person and of scene is rigidly historical (as in "Drouet's Ride" or "The Ark-Royall"). 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.