The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3
Familiar studies of men and books -- The body-snatcher.

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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 by Robert Louis Stevenson

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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3
Familiar studies of men and books -- The body-snatcher.

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I. Victor Hugo’s Romances II. Some Aspects of Robert Burns III. Walt Whitman IV. Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions V. Yoshida-Torajiro VI. François Villon, Student, Poet, and Housebreaker VII. Charles of Orleans VIII. Samuel Pepys IX. John Knox and His Relations To Women

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ration, some of the truth is sacrificed; and the result is cold, constrained, and grudging. In short, I might almost everywhere have spoken more strongly than I did.

THOREAU. Here is an admirable instance of the "point of view" forced throughout, and of too earnest reflection on imperfect facts. Upon me this pure, narrow, sunnily-ascetic Thoreau had exercised a great charm. I have scarce written ten sentences since I was introduced to him, but his influence might be somewhere detected by a close observer. Still it was as a writer that I had made his acquaintance; I took him on his own explicit terms; and when I learned details of his life, they were, by the nature of the case and my own parti pris, read even with a certain violence in terms of his writings. There could scarce be a perversion more justifiable than that; yet it was still a perversion. The study, indeed, raised so much ire in the breast of Dr. Japp (H. A. Page), Thoreau's sincere and learned disciple, that had either of us been m

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