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of any value, should be written by one superior to the
influences of private or personal feelings. What Gibbon calls 'truth, naked, unblushing truth, the flrst
virtue of more serious history', should alone direct the
pen of the historian; and truth alone influenced the
mind and guided the pen of the Author of this book.
Peter CuNNTNGIi.^.M.
Kensington,
\8th January,
1853.
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of any value, should be written by one superior to the
influences of private or personal feelings. What Gibbon calls 'truth, naked, unblushing truth, the flrst
virtue of more serious history', should alone direct the
pen of the historian; and truth alone influenced the
mind and guided the pen of the Author of this book.
Peter CuNNTNGIi.^.M.
Kensington,
\8th January,
1853.
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