A Colonial Free-lance - Couverture souple

Hotchkiss, Chauncey C

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1434485927 ISBN 13 : 9781434485922

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

God I am no coward, else that which I am about to write would be unwritten for loss of subject matter. Nor do I make a boast of my bravery, seeing it is a thing bom in a man and not of his own making. For, as it ill becomes a woman to take to herself the credit of her beauty (for the reason that it is fashioned by a power not her own), so would it appear vainglorious in me to laud myself for not playing the part of a child when necessity demanded the action of a man. A nd, furthermore, if in the following I seem to make much of my quickness of brain and power of arm, let me here disclaim all unjust pride in the matter, for my size and strength are things I owe to a cause higher than myself, and as for my wits, why, they are but those God gave me, and they worked as he saw fit to have them. As for bravery, I take it to be as much a pari; of a man as the fashion of his nose or set of his chin by no means a thing for which he can claim self-merit (though I know the worid holds a different opinion), and is but little more than sound nerves soundly strung, having nothing to do with rectitude of purpose.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1434485927
• ISBN 13: 9781434485922
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320