From 13ba96c0e57bb3a9f92bdc8d7bcb7b41c86a12dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: regirob Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:13:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] deleted a paragraph this paragraph has been deleted --- 6yankee.xml | 15 ++------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/6yankee.xml b/6yankee.xml index 2cea935..3382ba8 100644 --- a/6yankee.xml +++ b/6yankee.xml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + @@ -83,18 +83,7 @@ The Writings of Mark Twain Volume XVI Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York
PREFACE -

THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in -this tale are historical, and the episodes which are -used to illustrate them are also historical. It is -not pretended that these laws and customs existed in -England in the sixth century; no, it is only pretended -that inasmuch as they existed in the English and other -civilizations of far later times, it is safe to consider that -it is no libel upon the sixth century to suppose them to -have been in practice in that day also. One is quite -justified in inferring that whatever one of these laws or -customs was lacking in that remote time, its place was -competently filled by a worse one. +

The question as to whether there is such a thing as divine right of kings is not settled in this book. It