Heroes and Heroines of Memphis
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Quinn, D. A.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Heroes and Heroines of Memphis: Or Reminiscences of the Yellow Fever Epidemics That Afflicted the City of Memphis During the Autumn Months of 1873, 1878 and 1879, to Which Is Added a Graphic Description of Missionary Life in Eastern Arkansas Seeing that the History of Yellow Fever, written soon after the panic of 1878, was so "sparing" of catholic facts that it scarcely referred to Catholicism, I expected then, and during the past seven years never resigned the hope, that some clergyman of the diocese of Nashville, or worthy catholic citizen of Memphis, more competent than myself, would write an impartial History of the Lives of those Martyr-Heroes and Heroines, who, in imitation of their divine Master, "laid down their lives for the people." As up to the present year no one appears to have undertaken this task, I considered it an act of justice to the memory of the "departed," as also a laudable exemplar of unflinching faith, to record my "Yellow-Fever Reminiscences." In those instances where I have assumed a hilarious, when a serious tone would be more in keeping with the gravity of the subject, I simply meant to compensate for the many tearful events I had previously recorded, or had yet to record. If my narration of facts and "tributes" to the "departed" are not couched in grandiloquent words, or choice diction, I have only to regret that some one more capable than myself has not appropriated the subject. However, as all men have to acknowledge some little repertory of self-complacency, or self-conceit, I, too, have mine. Apart from the pleasure it affords me to extol the virtues of my "departed" comrades, I feel assured that, as there are thousands yet living in Tennessee who can attest the facts I indite, my little book will be read, if not with admiration, at least with interest and pleasure. 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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