![]() If the persons told of are beneath you in morals or intellect, then it is pleasant to reflect on your own superiority.Īre they above you in these particulars? then you are pleased to associate with them, so to speak, and to assign to yourselves, in imagination, a similarity of conduct, under similar circumstances. ![]() This flattery, however, must not be the result of the author's effort, but your own. Why should you listen with the slightest attention to my history? How can I expect you to care any more for me and my affairs, than for anybody else and anybody else's affairs? What right have I to inflict upon you a recital of events, in no way connected with yourself, that three-fourths of you believe untrue, and that concerns parties you never saw and perhaps never will see? None, reader, none!Īll the attention you give must be entirely gratuitous, except what I shall gain by tickling the selfish side of your nature for I well know that you like or dislike a book in proportion as yourselves are flattered. I am, then, at your service, John- no, I cannot call my own name, it always sounds strange in my own mouth I'll hand you my card in a moment and while I am fingering nervously in my case for the best engraved one I reflect: TO ONE WHO HAS TAUGHT ME THE BEAUTY AND DEPTH OFĪS THE usages of society generally require an introduction between strangers before communications of any moment can transpire, I hasten now to introduce myself, that the readers hereof, as yet strangers, but whom I hope before long familiarly to call "gentle" and "dear," may acquire at least one element of interest in the narrative I propose to offer, namely, acquaintance with its subject-modesty forbids me to say hero. If it has merit, you are surprised therefore applaud. If it has faults, you expect them therefore excuse. In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. North Carolina - Social life and customs - Fiction.įinished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing.Įntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by.College students - North Carolina - Chapel Hill - Fiction.University of North Carolina (1793-1962) - Students - Social life and customs.Library of Congress Subject Headings, 24th edition, 2001 ![]() Spell-check and verification made against printed text using Author/Editor (SoftQuad) and Microsoft Word spell check programs. Indentation in lines has not been preserved. Removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined toĪll quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed asĪll double right and left quotation marks are encoded as " and "Īll single right and left quotation marks are encoded as ' and ' respectively. Typographical errors have been preserved, and appear in red type.Īny hyphens occurring in line breaks have been Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved. Recommendations for Level 4 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. The text has been entered using double-keying and verified against the original. The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CHĭigitization project, Documenting the American South. 4 (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,Ĭall number VC813 F96S c. Supported the electronic publication of this title.Īpex Data Services, Inc., Melissa G. (Edwin Wiley), 1847-1876įunding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services
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