Lorenzo and Oonalaska (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Rocchietti, Joseph

 
9781332836741: Lorenzo and Oonalaska (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lorenzo and Oonalaska

My teacher told me it is written for a grave fault I have committed which, being a too grie vous one, thought proper to leave to your disere tion the punishment I deserve.

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Like Cato firm, like Aristides just, Like rigid Cincinnatus nobly poor, A dauntless soul erect, who smiled on death. Thompson, We hear a great many exalting the civilization of our age; but when we compare the fine precepts which men print for the improvement of so ciety, with the carelessness, we shall not say wickedness, which makes some men to believe it is their interest to leave those sacred books in the corners of libraries, the prey of mice and moths, we cannot help thinking, that from the history of Moses to this age, although arts and sciences have improved the physical welfare of society, our moral is inferior to that of the men of the fo rest. The reason of our immorality, we hope, will be explained in the course of the following short history of our heros life ;and we shall see, that men of virtue often psfc.
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