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The abominations of modern society

T. De Witt Talmage · 1872 · Scanned text · Free in the US

55,170 words · about 3 h 52 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD-US · Published 1872 (before 1884; date from the PleIAs English-PD record). The dataset curator states the whole collection is public domain in all regions (curator assertion, not independently verified); treated as public domain in the US.

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Author
T. De Witt Talmage
Language
English
Published
1872
Length
55,170 words · about 3 h 52 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (3)
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Preface

This is a buoy swung over the rocks. If it shall keep ship, bark, fore-and-aft schooner, or hermaphrodite brig from driving on a lee shore, " all's well."

The book is not more for young men than old. The Calabria was wrecked " the last day out."

Nor is the book more for men than women. The best being that God ever made is a good woman, and the worst that the devil ever made is a bad one. If anything herein shall be a warning either to man or woman, I will be glad that the manuscript was caught up between the sharp teeth of the type.

T. D. W. T.

Brooklyn, January ist, 1872.

Contents

FAG*

The Massacre by Needle and Sewing-Machine 94

The Gun that Kicks over the Man who Shoots it off 241

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