Mythical Bards and the Life of William Wallace, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)

Under this impression, I resolutely draw my pen, and fall to, with might and main, at those doughty questions and subtle para doxes, which, like fiery dragons and bloody giants, beset the entrance to my history, and would fain repulse me from the very threshold. And at this moment a gigantic question has started up, which I must needs take by the beard and utterly subdue, before I can advance another step in my historic undertaking. So Washington Irving begins a chapter in his Knickerbocker sH istory of New York, in which the author puts a mighty question to the rout, by the assistance of the man in the moon, and thus delivers thousands of people from great embar rassment.
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