Arthur O'leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands
Charles Lever
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, Dec. 30, 2018)
Excerpt from Arthur O'leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many LandsAlas! There were some excellent reasons against such a consummation. So, respected reader, whatever liberties we might take with you, we had to look nearer home, and bethink us Of ourselves. After all, and what a glorious charge to the jury of one's conscience is your after all what a plenary indulgence against all your sins of com mission and omission! What a makepeace to self-accusa tion, and what a salve to heartfelt repinings! - after all, we did know a great deal about o'leary: his life and opinions, his habits and haunts, his prejudices, pleasures, and predilections; and although we never performed Boz to his Johnson, still had we ample knowledge of him for all purposes of book-writing; and there was no reason why we should not assume his mantle, or rather his mackintosh, if the weather required it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.