Download or read book Recollections As a Source of History written by Edward Lillie Pierce and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections as a Source of History: A Paper Read by Edward L. Pierce Before the Massachusetts Historical Society, March 12, 1896 One need not be as old as seventy-nine to distrust himself in this respect. If any one of us were to have all his letters written in youth and early manhood brought to him, he would find in them vivid pictures of some scenes which he had wholly forgotten and could not, even with the assistance of the written account, recall, and of other scenes which lay in his mind very differently. From the way in which he described them at the time. Retentiveness of memory in persons of equal intelligence varies greatly. Some retain only general impressions, while others retain a firm hold on details. When I used in the seventies to ask Mr, Longfellow about things occurring in the thirties and forties, he would often say, You had better ask Hillard. The latter was remarkable for the freshness and accuracy of his recollections; and the same may be said of the late Judge Hoar. One frailty which perplexes advancing years is the incapa city to distinguish between what one has seen and what one has only heard; and the result is that the two kinds of knowl edge are hopelessly mixed together. The late Henry W. Paine, while still holding a foremost rank at the bar, used to describe a scene witnessed by him when Daniel Webster pre sented publicly to Charles Sumner, then a' youth, a prize for an essay. Mr. Paine on reading Sumner's Memoir (vol. I. Pp. 73, 74) discovered that he had fallen into an anachronism, as the presentation took place before he and Sumner met as stu dents at the Harvard Law School. Happening to see his old comrade at the school, Wendell Phillips, enter the court room, he communicated to him his error, saying, What a wretched thing, Wendell, the memory is! The explana tion is, that Mr. Paine had in early life heard the Story, and, telling it often, had come to believe that he himself Was present. 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.
Download or read book RECOLLECTIONS AS A SOURCE OF H written by Edward Lillie 1829-1897 Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Recollections of John Mason written by John Mason and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Recollections is a rare commodity - a personal chronicle of life in eighteenth century Virginia. Written to preserve memories of his parents for later generations of the family, the Recollections paints a vivid picture of events of John Mason's boyhood and his father's plantation. Gunston Hall, long considered an architectural gem, survives today as testimony to George Mason's intellect and taste. Along with John Mason's words, photographs in the volume provide glimpses of the mansion George Mason built between 1755 and 1759.
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Download or read book Historical Bibliography as an Essential Source for Historiography written by Bernadette Cunningham and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together papers presented at the Fifth International Conference of the European Historical Bibliographies Project, held in Prague on November 7 - 8, 2013, under the auspices of the Department of Historical Bibliography of the Institute of History of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic. The conference attracted bibliographers, historians and librarians from Denmark, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Germany, Switzerland and from a number of Czech institutions and libraries, who gathered to discuss a wide range of topics. The main theme of the conference was the significance of historical bibliography for historical science. Given the diversity of professional focus among the conference participants, this topic was approached and examined from a variety of viewpoints. The most important outcomes of these meetings were, firstly, explaining the way individual participating organisations dealt with historical bibliography, and, secondly, providing a comparison of different methodological and technological approaches for processing specialized bibliographies in various European countries. This book introduces the wider public to the current shape and prospects of historical bibliography projects across a range of European countries. Obviously, such projects must reflect the needs of their users, which mainly comprise historians and librarians. The ongoing development of historical bibliography does not only involve a technical challenge, but also a methodological one, as well as a societal one when interpreted in a broader context. Mutual communication helps form the future direction of historical bibliography, which will undoubtedly face many new tasks and challenges.
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