Hair Breadth Escapes
Author: T.S. Arthur
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Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 3734075203
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Author: T.S. Arthur
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 3734075203
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Author: William Troy
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Published: 1861
Total Pages: 116
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Published: 1872
Total Pages: 760
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 1030
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Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
Published: 1998-08-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780898866018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of the author's favorite twenty adventure stories from the last eleven years
Author: William Troy
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-08-10
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781515327783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI PRESUME it is right that prefaces should be written, though it is hard to say why, as they are very seldom read. Their chance of being perused is still more diminished when they are written in connection with any stirring narrative which is sure to interest the mind and touch the heart. Just in proportion to the interest of the book itself, is the preface liable to be overlooked. Such an appendage to a volume like this, therefore, is indeed a superfluity; for who would care to postpone the melancholy excitement of listening to this piercing cry from the land of the slave, for the sake of a tantalising, and, possibly, irrelevant introduction? The only object to be served by these preliminary lines, will be to use them as a means of making the author of this thrilling narrative better known personally to his readers this side the ocean. For, though the book itself is professedly an autobiography, there are some few circumstances which a man cannot relate so easily of himself as a friend can relate for him. Of Mr. Troy's mental qualities, and his graphic powers, I need say nothing, as both speak out in the narrative he has written. But of his sterling attributes of heart, those only who know him intimately can form a true idea. A real man and a finished gentleman, the author of this little book stands forth as another living contradiction of the doctrine which disparages the African as gifted with inferior intellect and possessed of baser feelings than the European; and he shows that colour is no barrier to the attainment of high culture and scholarship, and no hindrance to the possession of a delicately attuned emotion. If I were to say more, I might be betrayed into the exaggerations, which the partiality of a strong admirer and an attached friend can hardly suppress, and I must, therefore, leave Mr. Troy's book to speak for him as well as for itself. It needs but a small spark to kindle the magazine of British indignation against the American slave system, and many such sparks will be found in this book. We are told that some men have hearts of stone--there is hope of fire being struck even from them when the iron of the captive's fetters rings against them. But it is not merely the passing sigh of a regretful sympathy that this little volume seeks to evoke. It would fain give to that sigh an articulate sound, and direct it in earnest prayer before the throne of Him "who hath made of one blood all nations of men to inhabit the earth"--on behalf of the slave.
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 1118
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 852
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 434
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