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Excerpt from Four Lectures on the Rise, Progress, and Past Proceedings of the Society of Friends in Great Britain: With Brief Historical Notices of Some Preceding and Contemporary Events
They bear the same relation to history that scene painting bears to a pre-raphaelite picture the minuter details are omitted, and the stronger lights and shadows are painted in with a View to the general effect. In the preparation of them, it has not been my object to set forth new facts, or to indulge in new speculations, but, as far as is practicable in so brief and popular an outline, to place the old and well known facts, in what I believe to be their true relation to other cognate facts b which they were influenced, and with which, If we would expound their true character, they on ht ever to be associated. 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.
