Ireland, as I Saw It
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Excerpt from Ireland, as I Saw It: The Character, Condition, and Prospects of the People To My Dear Friend -: You ask me to publish an account of my travels in the Old World, for your gratification, and for the instruction of your children. Yon flatter me, when you compliment my Letters, and say you "want a book written in my peculiar style - plain, familiar, and off-hand, and yet so minute in its details that others may see what I saw. and feel as I felt." You impose on me a difficult task, and one I feel myself incapable of performing to my own satisfaction, much less to yours. Still, I am anxious to please you, and willing to help amuse your children; and, knowing that you will be rather generous than critical, I venture to offer you the following pages On Ireland. Whether other volumes, on other countries, will follow it, depends upon circumstances not wholly under my control. For this, I bespeak your favorable consideration. The numerous calls upon my time, the duties of my vocation, and the state of my health, have delayed the appearance of the present work, and prevented me from doing little more than fill up my notes, sketched during such leisure moments as I could find while performing my journey. I went to sec and learn - to gratify myself; and, to refresh my memory in after years, I made as copious notes as possible - jotted down, at the time, such thoughts, impressions, and incidents as occurred to me. I did not take much pains to reckon time or measure proportions, in a way to give minute descriptions. Historical and statistical facts are only introduced to add vividness to the pictures drawn. I traveled neither as philosopher, sage, or poet, but simply as a plain republican, curious to see, and anxious to learn all I could, in a given time. Of course, I measured every thing by such standard as I had, and pronounced my own judgment upon it. I went not to ape the manners of others - to Europeanize my notions and habits - to be pleased with every thing foreign, and dissatisfied with the plain, homespun habits of our own country. Neither did I carry a bigoted attachment to the custom? and institutions under which I was reared. I went without prejudice, and under the influence of a principle broad and deep, which recognizes kings as companions, beggars as equals, and all men as brethren. I carried with me a disposition to study the true, approve the good, honor the great, and admire the beautiful. That I love my own country and its liberal institutions, and now, more than ever, I will not deny; but that does not impair my judgment, nor blind my sense of justice to other lands? Arc we not all brethren? Docs not one Lord rule over us? Is it not the dictate of Christianity to rise above all local and national distinctions, in our estimate of right and wrong, of good and evil? Is not such the dictate of our higher nature? You will pardon me then, for the freedom I use. I write as I think, express what I feel, and describe what I saw. 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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