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Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts

By Rosalind Northcote

2019-03-21 21:43:34

The first and one of the greatest difficulties to confront a writer who attempts any sort of description of a place or people is almost sure to be the answer to the question, How much must be left out? In the present case the problem has reappeared i ... Read more
The first and one of the greatest difficulties to confront a writer who attempts any sort of description of a place or people is almost sure to be the answer to the question, How much must be left out? In the present case the problem has reappeared in every chapter, for Devon is 'a fair province,' as Prince says in his 'Worthies of Devon,' and 'the happy parent of ... a noble offspring.' My position is that of a person who has been bidden to take from a great heap of precious stones as many as are needed to make one chain; for however grasping that person may be, and however long the chain may be made, when all the stones have been chosen, the heap will look almost as great and delightful as before: only a few of the largest and brightest jewels will be gone. Less

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File size1497.873 KB
Print pages426
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1318874330
Born: 1873 Died: 1950 Parents: Walter Stafford Northcote, 2nd Earl of Iddesleigh, Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of Iddesleigh...

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