Author(s): Louis Robert Stevenson,van de Grift Fanny Stevenson
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 184
Publisher: ALAN RODGERS BOOKS
Language: English
Date Published: 2005-11-01
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 10mm
Publication City/Country: Woodlands Hills, United States
Edition:
Illustrations:
In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some features of nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation. Horror, in this case, is due to Mr. Parnell: he sits before posterity silent, Mr. Forster's appeal echoing down the ages. Horror is due to ourselves, in that we have so long coquetted with political crime; not seriously weighing, not acutely following it from cause to consequence; but with a generous, unfounded heat of sentiment, like the schoolboy with the penny tale, applauding what was specious. When it touched ourselves (truly in a vile shape), we proved false to the imaginations; discovered, in a clap, that crime was no less cruel and no less ugly under sounding names; and recoiled from our false deities. . . .
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 184
Publisher: ALAN RODGERS BOOKS
Language: English
Date Published: 2005-11-01
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 10mm
Publication City/Country: Woodlands Hills, United States
Edition:
Illustrations:
In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some features of nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation. Horror, in this case, is due to Mr. Parnell: he sits before posterity silent, Mr. Forster's appeal echoing down the ages. Horror is due to ourselves, in that we have so long coquetted with political crime; not seriously weighing, not acutely following it from cause to consequence; but with a generous, unfounded heat of sentiment, like the schoolboy with the penny tale, applauding what was specious. When it touched ourselves (truly in a vile shape), we proved false to the imaginations; discovered, in a clap, that crime was no less cruel and no less ugly under sounding names; and recoiled from our false deities. . . .
Book Info | |
Author | Louis Robert Stevenson, van de Grift Fanny Stevenson |
Date Published | 2005-11-01 |
Dimensions | 152 x 229 x 10mm |
First Author | Louis Robert Stevenson |
Format | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781598186970 |
Language | English |
No. of Pages | 184 |
Publication City/Country | Woodlands Hills, United States |
Publisher | ALAN RODGERS BOOKS |
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- Publisher: ALAN RODGERS BOOKS
- ISBN: 9781598186970
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