Author: Martin Haile

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Published: 2015-07-04

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781330689899

Excerpt from Life and Letters of John Lingard 1771-1851 For sixty years the Lingard papers have rested A undisturbed in various places, notably the library of Ushaw College, Durham. This long repose has not been without its advantages: if, on the one hand, it has tended - save among students and lovers of veracious history - to throw a veil of unmerited neglect on the man and his works, it has sufficed to set them back into the realm of history, where only they can be rightly judged and appraised, and ranked in their true place. Another advantage gained by the passage of more than half a century, has been the extinction of old controversies, the dying out, or the solution, of the burning problems, of which the heats of the momentary conflicts often obscured the true sense and bearing: not to mention the important fact of the passing out of existence of all the strenuous actors in the scenes, in which Lingard bore his dignified and worthy part. The facts, in their simplicity and entirety, may be set forth without wounding susceptibilities, or arousing fruitless discussions. 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.