Excerpt from History of England, Vol. 1 of 2: Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings, Translated From the German of Dr. J. M. Lappenberg, For; F. S. A., Keeper of the Archives of the City of Hamburg
By many it will, without doubt, be thought singular that the history of a state, which has always been of prominent, and often of paramount importance in the affairs of the world, should have been undertaken by one who cannot, in the vocation or position of a professor, have found either an excuse for venturing on a task, however desirable, yet of difficult execution, or superior means of accomplishing it. As unfitting too, and even obnoxious to the charge of presumption, an individual must appear, who, in addition to the above-mentioned objections, has not unlimited leisure to bestow on so great a theme, but, on the contrary, has for many years been attached to a practical calling, which, though favourable to particular historical and juridical investigations, and to the elaboration of his native history, is, nevertheless, wont to stand opposed to a susceptibility for the more general views, to a conception of the more agitated life, and to the poetic and moral elements of general history, and at the same time adverse to every attempt at vivid powerful description and individual feeling, as foreign and obstructive to the matter.
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