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Richard Francis Sir Burton
The Book of the Sword
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338075109
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FOREWORD.
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‘I wanted a book on the Sword, not a treatise on Carte and Tierce,’ said the Publisher, when, some years ago, my earliest manuscript was sent to him.
It struck me then and there that the Publisher was right. Consequently the volume was re-written after a more general and less professional fashion.
I have only one wish that reader and reviewer can grant: namely, a fair field and no favour for certain ‘advanced views’ of Egyptology. It is my conviction that this study, still in its infancy, will greatly modify almost all our preconceived views of archæological history.
RICHARD F. BURTON.
Trieste: November 20, 1883.
INTRODUCTION.
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The history of the Sword is the history of humanity. The ‘White Arm’ means something more than the ‘oldest, the most universal, the most varied of weapons, the only one which has lived through all time.’