Beaumarchais and His Times - Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth Century From Unpublished Documents #264807

To reach this triple Object of our endeavours, we had many dificulties to resolve. The first consisted in the proportions to be maintained between the extracts and the narrative; the English biographers make rather too great a use of their documents they do not always pay enough attention to the move ment of the narrative, to the sequence of the con necting points between the different parts of a work.