Did You Know The Cinque Ports

Author : Ford Madox Hueffer
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ISBN 13 : 9781331989509
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book The Cinque Ports written by Ford Madox Hueffer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cinque Ports: A Historical and Descriptive Record My Dear Robert, Permit me to dedicate this book, or so much of it as is mine, to you. It is a practice not unusual for a dedicator to assure a dedicatee that he - perhaps more frequently she - is the fountain and origin of the work dedicated, the head and front of the offence. This practice I can to some extent, and with a good conscience, follow; for I hold it certain that but for your friendly and professional advice I should long since have ended, if not on the gallows, at least in a union workhouse, a not vastly promising career. In the latter of these predicaments the writing of a book about the Cinque Ports would have been difficuWith regard to this book: as you are aware, I have lived within the Liberties of one or other of the Five Ports ever since I can remember, and, ever since I can remember, the glamour of their name has been upon me. As a boy at school in one of the Corporate Members of the Port of Dover I always thought that the estate of a Baron of the Ports was the highest of ultimate human attainments; I had no wish, like my schoolmates, to be either a pirate, or a railway-guard, or even a baron of the realm. As perhaps you remember, at the very outset of writing I confided to you my ideas of what the book was to be: neither archaeological nor topographical, nor even archaeologico-topographical. 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."