Excerpt from Scottish Diaries and Memoirs, 1550 1746 Good diaries are not merely good historical evidence, they are also good stories, and only the pedant will complain if the diarist has added a little decoration; it will not trouble us much to suspect that Sir James Melville, whose fascinating account of his interview with Queen Elizabeth is one of the gems of this book, may have elabor ated his impromptu retorts when leisure permitted him to reflect upon what he ought to have said. Even when the topics are of less ...
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Excerpt from Scottish Diaries and Memoirs, 1550 1746 Good diaries are not merely good historical evidence, they are also good stories, and only the pedant will complain if the diarist has added a little decoration; it will not trouble us much to suspect that Sir James Melville, whose fascinating account of his interview with Queen Elizabeth is one of the gems of this book, may have elabor ated his impromptu retorts when leisure permitted him to reflect upon what he ought to have said. Even when the topics are of less interest than Melville's, the old Diary appeals to us as a record of human life, its aims, hopes, disappointments, joys and sorrows, losses and gains. It reveals to us a living man in his family, among his neigh bours, friends and foes alike, and the conditions of life in a by-gone age, difficult for the imagination to reconstruct, are illustrated and explained as the narrative proceeds. The Diary is the easiest, the most attractive, and, in many ways, the most trustworthy key to the past, and especially to the social life of the past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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