《A Life-Long Story, or Am I My Sister's Keeper?: Facts and Phases for the Times, Dedicated to the Women of England (Classic Reprint)》是一本圖書。
基本介紹
- ISBN：9781333602215
- 外文名：A Life-Long Story, or Am I My Sister's Keeper?: Facts and Phases for the Times, Dedicated to the Women of England (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Life-Long Story, or Am I My Sister's Keeper?: Facts and Phases for the Times, Dedicated to the Women of England Endorse, as these latter days do, the complaint of the Preacher King there is nothing new under the sun, and of making books there is no end, probably it may be less needful to pro duce things new than to te-produce the old with a fresher pathos. Many, ...(展開全部) Excerpt from A Life-Long Story, or Am I My Sister's Keeper?: Facts and Phases for the Times, Dedicated to the Women of England Endorse, as these latter days do, the complaint of the Preacher King there is nothing new under the sun, and of making books there is no end, probably it may be less needful to pro duce things new than to te-produce the old with a fresher pathos. Many, if not all, of the subjects introduced into these pages have been dealt with - and dealt with infinitely better, though in other forms - before, hence, any relevant sentiments calculated to further the object in view, that adjusted into their diversified mosaic, have been freely appropriated, and the same is hereby acknowledged. In the chronos there are some in accuracies, the why and wherefore will be self-suggestive to the indulgent reader; but as they do not affect the fact and incident, they are unimportant, and are merely reverted to in the h0pe of deprecating, on this head, at least, that which has daunted'many a braver heart, the licensed critic's ban, and the unlicensed critic's sneer. It may be necessary to state, that it was the desire and. Inter. Tion of the writer to have published early in the summer of 1857 but an adverse insetting current overbore the will, and in re-preparing the volume for the press, some alterations, suited to passing events, might have been beneficially introduced but as any variation in the scaffolding would have left the building unaltered, and as friends to whom the idea was sug gested dissented therefrom, it is before the public with all its imperfections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
