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Front Matter
The Harpies
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Preface
In writing the series of historical narratives to which
the present work pertains, it has been the object of
the author to furnish to the reading community of this
country an accurate and faithful account of the lives
and actions of the several personages that are made
successively the subjects of the volumes, following
precisely the story which has come down to us from
ancient times. The writer has spared no pains to gain
access in all cases to the original sources of
information, and has confined himself strictly to them.
The reader may, therefore, feel assured in perusing any
one of these works, that the interest of it is in no
degree indebted to the invention of the author. No
incident, however trivial, is ever added to the
original account, nor are any words even, in any case,
attributed to a speaker without express authority.
Whatever of interest, therefore, these stories may
possess, is due solely to the facts themselves which
are recorded in them, and to their being brought
together in a plain, simple, and connected narrative.
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