The history of Pembrokeshire / by the Rev. James Phillips.

  • Phillips, James
Date:
1909
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Credit: The history of Pembrokeshire / by the Rev. James Phillips. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOREWORD THE decision to publish this History was not easily or hastily arrived at. The fact that the manu- script was incomplete presented the greatest difficulty. The author had projected a history that would have dealt with the county to the close of the nineteenth century. His outline included three chapters under the following headings: Georgian Pembrokeshire, The Landing of the French, and Modern Days, which he did not live to write. A perusal of the present volume by the general reader will, we believe, carry with it a regret at the absence of these chapters. But the shadow of death and the multi- farious public engagements of the author interfered wath the execution of his plan. He was able, however, to deal pretty fully with the Evangelical revival of the eighteenth century, a subject that had long interested him, and the study of which had undoubtedly suggested to his mind the larger undertaking. The general desire expressed for the appearance of a book thus written from a fresh standpoint, the product of one who, by early training and sympathy, had so many qualifications for treating the matter adequately, and the knowledge of the pleasure the prospect of its appearance gave our brother, overcame our hesitation to a great extent.
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