Ten Thousand Wonderful Things Comprising Whatever Is Marvellous And Rare Curious Eccentric And Extraordinary In All Ages And Nations Book

Author : Edmund Fillingham King
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ISBN 13 : 9781332289417
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Ten Thousand Wonderful Things written by Edmund Fillingham King and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ten Thousand Wonderful Things: Comprising the Marvellous and Rare, Odd, Curious, Quaint, Eccentric and Extraordinary, in All Ages and Nations, in Art, Nature, and Science, Including Many Wonders of the World, Enriched Hundreds of Authentic Illustrations What is odd or quaint, strange or startling, rarely possesses much claim to the picturesque and refined. Scrape the rust off an antique coin, and, while you make it look more shining, you invariably render it worthless in the eyes of a collector. To polish up a fact which derives its value either from the strangeness of its nature, or from the quaintness of its narration, is like the obliterating process of scrubbing up a painting by one of the old masters. It looks all the cleaner for the operation, but, the chances are, it is spoilt as a work of art. We trust it is needless to say that we have closed our pages against everything that can be considered objectionable in its tendency; and, while every statement in this volume has been culled with conscientious care from authentic, although not generally accessible, sources, we have scrupulously rejected every line that could give offence, and endeavoured, in accordance with what we profess in our title-page, to amuse by the eccentric, to startle by the unexpected, and to astonish by the marvellous. 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.