第1章 Preface.
- The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
- Robert Southey
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The facts, in the life of Francis Marion, are far less generally extended in our country than his fame. The present is an attempt to supply this deficiency, and to justify, by the array of authentic particulars, the high position which has been assigned him among the master-workers in our revolutionary history. The task has been a difficult, but I trust not entirely an unsuccessful one. Our southern chronicles are meagre and unsatisfactory. South Carolina was too long in the occupation of the British -- too long subject to the ravages of civil and foreign war, to have preserved many of those minor records which concern only the renown of individuals, and are unnecessary to the comprehension of great events; and the vague tributes of unquestioning tradition are not adequate authorities for the biographer, whose laws are perhaps even more strict than those which govern the historian.
Numerous volumes, some private manuscripts, and much unpublished correspondence, to which reference has been more particularly made in the appendix, have been consulted in the preparation of this narrative.
The various histories of Carolina and Georgia have also been made use of.
Minor facts have been gathered from the lips of living witnesses.
Of the two works devoted especially to our subject, that by the Rev. Mr. Weems is most generally known -- a delightful book for the young.
The author seems not to have contemplated any less credulous readers, and its general character is such as naturally to inspire us with frequent doubts of its statements. Mr. Weems had rather loose notions of the privileges of the biographer; though, in reality, he has transgressed much less in his Life of Marion than is generally supposed. But the untamed, and sometimes extravagant exuberance of his style might well subject his narrative to suspicion. Of the "Sketch" by the Hon. Judge James, we are more secure, though, as a literary performance, it is quite as devoid of merit as pretension. Besides, the narrative is not thorough.
It dwells somewhat too minutely upon one class of facts, to the neglect or the exclusion of others. I have made both of these works tributary to my own whenever this was possible.
Woodland, S.C., May 25, 1844.
The Life of Francis Marion.
三體全集（全三冊）
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棺香美人
我出生的時候，江水上漲，沖了一口棺材進了我家。十五年后，棺材打開，里面有個她……風水，命理……寫不盡的民間傳說，訴不完的光怪陸離。
龍族Ⅴ：悼亡者的歸來
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奪嫡
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天亮了，你就回來了
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