Or, Entertaining Moral Stories, Vol. 1 of 2: Invented by the Mones as a Fire-Side Recreation; And Commonly Applied in Their Discourses from the Pulpit: Whence the Most Celebrated of Our Own Ports and Others, from the Earliest Times, Have Extracted Their P by Charles Swan (Paperback / softback, 2016)
Excerpt from Or, Entertaining Moral Stories, Vol. 1 of 2: Invented by the Mones as a Fire-Side Recreation; And Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit: Whence the Most Celebrated of Our Own Ports and Others, From the Earliest Times, Have Extracted Their Plots; Translated From the Latin, With Prelimi The so called gesra romarum is un doubtedly one of the most curious of those col lections of tales which are found in the popular literature Of most peoples. Such tales, indeed, appear to have been the means by which man communicated his sentiments and Opinions to, and impressed them upon, his fellow men, from the earliest ages of human existence. They seem to have formed, if we may so express it. 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 techlogy 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.