The Smuggler: A Tale (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Smuggler: A Tale

After the tale had penetrated into the little village in which its first scenes are laid, a sanctified and tip sily-inclined butcher of the place ran, one day, after a stage-coach, on which was mounted an acquaintance of the writers', and,.wroth at being pleased to suppose himself 'sketched by their pun, requested the person spoken of to inform us, that some time or other, he would hunt us from Dan to Beersheba. As to people of higher degree, it is known in the town from which we date these lines, that an honourable individual, who chose to see himself reflected in an agreeable scamp of title in our poor Novel, talked even more awfully, though quite as. Harmlessly, as the field preaching Butcher Fell.

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Excerpt from The Smuggler: A Tale

Having been requested by our publisher to say something in this edition of The Smuggler in "The Standard Novels," illustrative of the real grounds upon which it has been built, we comply, as follows: -

It owes its conception to a wish - an anxious wish - to indicate to those whom it most concerns, -

Firstly - The effects upon the minds, manners, and actions of the lower, and not a few of the middle orders of England, of laws, said to be laws made by the rich against the poor:"

Secondly - The effects upon the minds, manners, and actions of the same classes, of a church, legally supported, in taxing their daily labour, at the perilous risk (perilous to an incalculable magnitude!) of leaving them to the edification of self-called, fanatical, uneducated, and presumptuous expounders of The Word Of God.

For this task, few needful preparations were, it is conscientiously hoped, left unattempted.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This 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.