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Excerpt from Lives of Eminent Serjeants-at-Law of the English Bar, Vol. 1 of 2
Before we conclude these preliminary observations, we must call attention for a very brief period to the subject of anecdotes in general. These stories of men and things must have a. Very liberal allowance permitted to them. Many are true, very many only partially so, yet, very few indeed are pure inventions. We must apply these remarks to the present under taking. In dealing with groups Of numerous anecdotes it seems the safer course scarcely to reject any. Occasionally we meet with the same tale related differently. This is a confirmation of its truth. Thucydides Observes, that if six persons are witnesses of the same event, each will be apt to propound his own version of it. A story is sometimes attributed to the wrong person, but still the facts are the same. Too fastidious a criticism would have a tendency to shut out most valuable materials. We have, therefore.
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