Shaftesbury (the First Earl) - Couverture souple

9781372298356: Shaftesbury (the First Earl)

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ISBN 10 : 1372298355 ISBN 13 : 9781372298356

Editeur : Wentworth Press, 2016

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Prefatory Note far from being so in fact. It is, in trutli, a patchwork performance, composed at the instance of the fourth Lord Shaftesbury by a Mr. Benjamin Martyn, but so little apparently to his patrons satisfaction that it was withheld from publication during the whole of the latters lifetime. His son, the fifth Earl, handed the MS. to Dr. Kippis, editor of the Biographia Britannica, for revision; after which it was printed, but derived so little advantage to the eye of the fifth Earl from its appearance in type, that he is said to have destroyed the whole of the impression, save two copies, one of which is at Wimbome St. Giles, while the other, finding its way some half-century ago into the hands of a London publisher, was re-edited with notes and additions by Mr. Wingrove Cooke. I ts original basis having been a memoir from the hand of Shaftesbury ssecretary, Stringer, of which only a fragment now remains, Martyn s Life might have been expected to be more valuable than it is. But Stringer seems to have taken much of his account of facts at second-hand from Shaftesbury sown statements; and while it is at least doubtful whether Shaftesbury always told Stringer the truth, it is eminently probable that Stringer, writing seventeen years after his patrons death, occasionally from failure of memory misstated such truth as was told him, and it is quite certain that Martyn was incapable of distinguishing between the true and the false. The result is a sort of Rawleigh Redivivus in two volumes.
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