Extracts From A Few Scattered Leaves

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ISBN 13 : 9781331763062
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book Extracts From a Few Scattered Leaves written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Extracts From a Few Scattered Leaves: Of the Panorama of Liberty, Democracy and Slavery; Their Champions and Attendants, an Allegory Being a plain, unceremonious farmer, I was about to send this little book out into the wide world without a preface, to depend upon its own merits for success; but I am admonished that this would be impolite and disrespectful to the reader, like going into a house without knocking at the door, with a brazen I-care-for-nobody-and-nobody-cares-for-me expression of countenance, and taking a seat sullenly, without saluting the good man of the house. Can he that is too morose to ask favors, expect to receive them? Therefore, entertaining profound respect for the reader, and having nothing in particular that I can say to recommend myself or my book, I come out from my retreat just to extend the right hand of fellowship and give you a friendly greeting. When I commenced this little Allegory last fall, I had no thoughts of writing a book, much less of invoking the muses. I expected to scribble over a sheet or two of paper for my own diversion, and to read it at our Republican Club for the amusement of my friends; but I was carried away by my subject into a boundless ocean of thought, interspersed with flowery islands. Strange, fantastic shapes filled my imagination, and my words began to flow in rude, unpolished numbers, to limp along on poetic feet, and jingle with rhyme. As I proceed, my subject seems to grow n importance, and new scenes continually open before me. "The increasing prospect tires my-wandering eyes; Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise." I have already used up several quires of paper, which would make a larger volume than I can afford to publish; so I select a few extracts, and send them out as samples. If you like these, I will publish the rest when I get money enough to pay the printer. I abhor running into debt. You know that we farmers are an economical people. I sincerely hope that none of my old friends and neighbors will accuse me of leaving the plough and turning poet, and set good, honest, working folks to staring at me as a queer sort of a visionary fellow. I plead not guilty of committing so grave an offense against the simple majesty of plain, matter-of-fact, prosaic dignity, willfully or maliciously; and if found guilty, I shall still insist that it is accidental poesy in the absence of the muses. 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.