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Excerpt from All About Derbyshire
When All Aéom' Derbysfiz're was projected, an eminent man of letters objected to the title as too ambitious. A book, he contended, which told its readers all About Derbyshire would require to be of dimensions almost as bulky as the county itself 5 and so he, no doubt, dismissed me, and the following pages, as all too much. The title is, peradventure, immodest and misleading. It certainly bears a double construction. The designation may be regarded as applying to a volume that exhausts everything that was, is, and ever will be known about the beloved and beautiful North Midland Shire. To write all About Derbyshire would be like attempting that Life of Confucius which an ambitious Celestial attacked; but, instead of taking the life of Confucius he took his own, so overwhelmed was he by the dimensions of a task he left to future generations to complete. The title, All About Derbyshire, was chosen as a companion title to All About Derby, issued by the present publisher.
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