ISBN: 9781103230549

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTERS), LETTER I. So you wish me, my dear friend, to write a whole " series of letters." Why, you seem to have studied with the Franciscans, with whom " begging boldly " is constitutional. " Vadatis pro eleemosyna confident er," says their founder and saint in the constitution of the order. And on Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTERS), LETTER I. So you wish me, my dear friend, to write a whole " series of letters." Why, you seem to have studied with the Franciscans, with whom " begging boldly " is constitutional. " Vadatis pro eleemosyna confident er," says their founder and saint in the constitution of the order. And on what shall I write? On the United States? You give me a subject as vast as their territory, and surely you do not wish a series of letters running through six volumes as big and heavy as a novel of old! Besides a book of that size would be quite out of season. Nowadays every thing, even commentaries on a code, must be twelve-moed out to the public. Nay, this diminutive size is too troublesome for many, may I say for most, people? They require their intellectual dishes to be chopped and minced into a newspaper pie. " Sir," said an old and thoroughly experienced editor lately to me, " an article, calculated for being read, ought never to exceed half a column," and he knows the palate of the public as well as any man in the meat or fruit market. Were I to write a history of modern civilization, I should follow the most philosophical rule, by making " Go and beg boldly."-Editor, my division into periods according to striking manifestations of powerful and characteristic principles. I would call one of the great divisions the period of folios; the time when controversialists knew of no more poisonous arrow to bury in the heart of their opponent, than to remind him that he had written but a quarto! See D'Israeli's Curiosities, where he speaks of Nominalists. This huge folio age might go down to Cartesius or thereabouts. Whatever was the subject, folio was the requisite form. Next is the epoch of quartos and the dawn of'newspapers-small and single leaves, half of the first Books, History~~General, Stranger-In-America~~Francis-Lieber, 999999999, The Stranger In America, Francis Lieber, 1103230549, BiblioBazaar, , , , , BiblioBazaar<

ISBN: 9781103230549

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. Francis Lieber, Books, History, The Stranger in America: or, Letters to a Gentleman in Germany Books>History This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.<

ISBN: 9781103230549

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