Excerpt from History of the Greek Revolution, and of the Wars and Campaigns Arising From the Struggles of the Greek Patriots in Emancipating Their Country From the Turkish Yoke, Vol. 1 of 2
Tm; contest betwixt the Greeks and Turks has employed so many pens, that he who now ventures to write on that hackneyed, and appa rently exhausted subject, must begin by explain ing his reasons for travelling over a beaten road, 'to which he cannot hope to attract public curi osity, since it is either satiated by preceding narratives, or drawn away towards more recent and important transactions: these reasons may be summed up in a few words. That moment ary interest, which induced a number of persons hastily to publish what they had seen or heard in Greece, exists no longer; but there is, and ever will be, a grave class of readers loving truth more than novelty, and desirous of becoming acquainted with the exact details of a revolu tion, that must take its place in the history of the world. As yet there is nothing calculated to satisfy their taste, for of the forty authors whom the struggle in Greece has called forth.
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