The Golden Hour
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217713306
Paperback|9780217713306
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1862. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... your Paradise, and the billows of hell underneath receive him who steps one inch, as much as him who steps a yard, aside. Sitting there, I was reminded of how an old uncle of our neighborhood would quiz us. " Boys," he said, once, " I got a letter from a little boy to-day, and -- ha, ha -- how do you think he spelt dog ? " Then we all made our guesses, -- dogg, doag, dogge, dorg. At last, when we have exhausted our ingenuity, the old uncle quietly replies, " Why, he spelt it d-o-g, of course." Just as idly and as childishly are our rulers trifling with the sacred hours, to see if something else cannot be made to wield the divine spell of simple Justice. You are praying for and talking of the coming man. Would he find faith in the land? Are you quite sure you would not crucify him -- or hang him, as the American way is -- should he come ? That is what the Jews did with their Coming Man, after they had been praying Heaven to send him for four thousand years. Two years ago the wild, half-clad forerunner of our coming man, whose meat was wild honey, was heard in the wilderness of Virginia, and his head was brought in a charger to Slavery: so much it cost him to declare the axe laid to the root of the accursed tree. How little does this nation know what a right and true man, should he break into our midst, would do with us Little see we the piled shreds of broken red-tape, -- little the mountain of the refuse of epaulets and brass buttons He would re-distribute Washington into the original elements, and gather it for loam about the roots of the sapling he would rear. Yet pray on, 0 people, for the coming man Not as you expect it shall be his advent; but he shall come, and before the masses are ready for him. Somewhere the granite is crystallizing for his bones; ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217713306 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217713300 |
| Weight | 0.32 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 90 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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