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Excerpt from The Life of Paul Jones, Vol. 1
As these works are chiefly composed of original letters of Jones, they convey a suf ficiently distinct idea of his life and char acter. But the historical style in which all these works are written necessarily ih volves the insertion of such a mass of doc uments, as to swell their bulk with matter which is not always of interest to the gen eral reader, whilst his mind is fatigued by unavoidable repetitions, interruptions, and irregularities of date. To avoid these didi eulties, the narrative style of biography has been adopted in the following work, by the advice of Mr. Sparks, and it has been theobject of the writer to state all the known facts in the life of Paul Jones, in a simple, consecutive manner, according to their nat ural order of succession. As, however, the writings of an individual often convey to the mind a more distinct idea of his thoughts and feelings than can otherwise be obtain ed, letters of Paul Jones have been occa sionally introduced; the temptation to in troduce more was very great, as he wrote with clearness, spirit, and vigor.
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