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The rise and fall of the mustache and other "Hawk-eyetems"

Robert J. Burdette · 1878 · Scanned text · Free in the US

97,654 words · about 6 h 50 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1878, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/44050089); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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About this book

Author
Robert J. Burdette
Language
English
Published
1878
Length
97,654 words · about 6 h 50 min
Sections
6 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (6)
  1. Preface about 1 min
  2. Contents about 3 h 27 min
  3. Chapter I. Margueritte!" under 1 min
  4. CHAPTER II. Her father was dead about 1 min
  5. Chapter III about 1 min
  6. chapter v about 3 h 21 min

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Preface

The appearance of a new book is an indication that another man has found a mission, has entered upon the performance of a lofty duty, actuated only by the noblest impulses that can spur the soul of man to action. It is the proudest boase of the profession of literature, that no man ever published a book for selfish purposes or with ignoble aim. Books have been published for the consolation of the distressed; for the guidance of the wandering; for the relief of the destitute; for the hope of the penitent; for uplifting the burdened soul above its sorrows and fears; for the general amelioration of the condition of all mankind; for the righl against the wrong; for the good against the bad; for the truth. This book is published

for two dollars per volume.

R. J. B.

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