A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . >OUBTS have occasionally been expressed asto whether or not a son is the fit recorderof his fathers life; and perhaps objectionsmay be offered to the man who attemptsto write the History of his Family. Itcannot be denied that many such Bio-graphies and Family Histories presentmanifest sins of both omission and commission ; and it requiresa good deal of courage honestly to portray the weaknesses aswell as the merits, the shadows as we
A history of the family of Seton during eight centuries[With plates, including portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, a bibliography and genealogical tables.] . >OUBTS have occasionally been expressed asto whether or not a son is the fit recorderof his fathers life; and perhaps objectionsmay be offered to the man who attemptsto write the History of his Family. Itcannot be denied that many such Bio-graphies and Family Histories presentmanifest sins of both omission and commission ; and it requiresa good deal of courage honestly to portray the weaknesses aswell as the merits, the shadows as well as the lights. Evenwhere the author has no connection with the family which heundertakes to describe, he sometimes exhibits glaring evidenceof prejudice and unfairness. Somewhere about twelve years ago, a writer in theEdinburgh Review spoke of the compiler of a certain ScottishFamily Record as being very tender with the reputation ofhis heroes; and pronounced the tenor of that familys careerto be very commonplace, and to have rarely risen above thelevel of secondary Highland lairds. He also referred to the negation of criticism and absence of enlight
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