Memoirs of a Cavalier, or a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany and the Wars in England (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Memoirs of a Cavalier, or a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany and the Wars in England

From the day the Memoirs appeared, there has been doubt as to their authorship. Defoe himself, in the preface to the first edition, declared it very probable these Memorials were written many years ago, by a gentleman of quality who had taken part in the wars of which he wrote. The publisher of the second edition, which came out at Leeds twenty years or more after the first,l evidently regarded De foe's statement as true, for he declared that the Memoirs could hardly be fiction they must be fact.

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Excerpt from Memoirs of a Cavalier, or a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany and the Wars in England

I have already said that in Defoe's. Own preface to the first edition, 'we find the foundation on. Which has been reared the whole structure of argument that the book was written by a gentleman who served in the wars of Gustavus Adolphus and Charles I. As evidence for the-antiquity of these Memorials, Defoe announced that the publishers had had them in their possession above twenty years, and that they had been found in the closet of one of King William's secretaries of state. Al most all the facts, Defoe goes on to say, especially those of moment, are confirmed for their general part by all the writers of. Those times. If they are here embellished with particulars, which are no where else to be found that it is that must recommend this work to all the men of sense and judgment that read it.

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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.