Détails du livre
Format
Broché
Pages
287
Langue
Anglais
Publié
Jan 1, 2024
Éditeur
Forgotten Books
ISBN-10
133138205X
ISBN-13
9781331382058
Description
Excerpt from Rocks Ahead
Or arguments successfully impugned. I should have been glad if it were otherwise; for the subject is far too grave for egotism, and the pic ture I drew of the probable future of my country too sad, both in colouring and outline, to be dwelt upon by any patriot without pain. But most of my critics have been contented either to represent my views as the morbid exaggerations of a writer notorious for the consistent lugubrious.
Or arguments successfully impugned. I should have been glad if it were otherwise; for the subject is far too grave for egotism, and the pic ture I drew of the probable future of my country too sad, both in colouring and outline, to be dwelt upon by any patriot without pain. But most of my critics have been contented either to represent my views as the morbid exaggerations of a writer notorious for the consistent lugubrious.