A Book of the Hudson
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from A Book of the Hudson: Collected From the Various Works of Diedrich Unickerbochker I thank God that I was born on the banks of the Hudson. I fancy I can trace much of what Is good and pleasant in my own heterogeneous compound to my early companionship with this glorious river. In the warmth of youthful enthusiasm, I used to clothe it with moral attributes, and, as it were, give it a soul. I delighted in its frank, bold, honest character; its noble sincerity, and perfect truth. Here was no specious, smiling surface, covering the shifting sand-bar and perfidious rock, but a stream deep as it was broad, and bearing with honorable faith the bark that trusted to its waves. I gloried in its simple, quiet, majestic, epic flow, ever straight forward, or, if forced aside for once by opposing mountains, struggling bravely through them, and resuming its onward march. Behold, thought I, an emblem of a good man´s coarse though life, ever simple, open, and direct, or if, overpowered by adverse circumstances, he deviate into error, it is but momentary; he soon resumes his onward and honorable career, and continues it to the end of his pilgrimage. The foregoing rhapsody formed part of a paper addressed some years since to the editor of a periodical work, introducing certain legends and traditions concerning the Hudson river, found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker. That worthy and truthful historian was one of my earliest and most revered friends, and I owe many of the pleasant associations in my mind with this river, to information derived in my youth from that venerable sago. Tho legends and traditions in existence have hitherto been published in a scattered state, In various miscellaneous works, and mixed up with other writings. It has recently occurred to me that it would be an acceptable homage to his venerated shade, to collect in one volume all that he has written concerning tho river which he loved so well. 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.
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