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Excerpt from A Brief Memoir of Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward, B.A., Lond., F. S. A: Librarian in Ordinary to the Queen and Keeper of the Prints and Drawings at Windsor Castle
First, The his'i'orian, who records facts, and en deavours to describe accurately the various motives of human conduct. But as he deals principally with grand events and mighty personages, so, of necessity, he frequently soars beyond the glance and far away from the experience of ordinary mortals. Besides, there is so much political craft and unfathomable cun ning in the doings of those who manage the affairs of kingdoms, that the historian - be he ever so clever - is liable to be deceived himself, and thus unwittingly and unintentionally to delude and to mislead his most in telligent readers. This arises frequently, aye, and perhaps most frequently, not from want of integrity or philanthropy on his part, but from the extreme difficulty of the task he has undertaken. To the honest historian be all praise - and there we must leave him.
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