Essays, Lectures, Addresses, Sermons, and Miscellaneous and Descriptive Pieces
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Tighe, John J.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Essays, Lectures, Addresses, Sermons, and Miscellaneous and Descriptive Pieces: Including a Discussion on Education Of the fact that "of making many books there is no end" we are fully conscious. Neither do we fondly seek to persuade ourselves that the present production is just the desideratum to fill "a long-felt want." Honored usage has prescribed that a book-maker furnish some apology for the innocuous vanity of appearing in print. When the enraptured eye of Dickens first rested on his fascinating effusions arrayed in the decoration of type, he attempted the novel performance of reading them, while standing upon his head; which freak Edmund Burke would doubtless define as an effort "to live in an inverted order." We shall, probably, never be the sport of such strange "ups and downs." The palmary reason for this book, perhaps, is that many who heard discussed some of the topics herein treated, especially that of Education, expressed the desire, with great sincerity and cordiality, as it appeared to us, to have them recorded in more permanent form. This was, possibly, an unwarranted conceit, which the writer, with due diffidence, now undertakes to gratify. Whether others, more disinterested, will ratify the favorable and indulgent judgment of friends and well-wishers, may be early, but we hope not painfully, made manifest. Concurrent endorsement would, it is puerile to conceal, carry satisfaction both to our friends and to us; but even the reversal of opinions which, in all likelihood, had taken on the rose-colored tint of partiality, will be met with equanimity of mind and an obliged sense of correction. We believe, however, with another, that affected haughtiness and affected humility are alike despicable in a preface, and hence we trust not to be convicted of overweening pretension in considering that some few, at least, of these firstlings of our creation will repay the reader´s examination. 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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