Evansville, Her Commerce and Manufactures: A Descriptive Work of the Business Metropolis of Indiana (Classic Reprint)
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Evansville, Her Commerce and Manufactures
EN NWISBN: 9781330087855 bzw. 1330087852, in Englisch, Forgotten Books, neu.
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Excerpt from Evansville, Her Commerce and Manufactures: A Descriptive Work of the Business Metropolis of Indiana Custom has made it quite necessary that every book that is sent out among the people, should have a Prefatory page which may serve to introduce it to favor and consideration, just as the rhymes do one another in the memorable "House that Jack Built." But, for the life of me, I never could understand why a Preface need always be an apology. If a man has written a book, and fairly put his heart and soul into what he has done, it is not so easy for him to tell what there is for him to be ashamed of. A Preface should not be a sniveling whine. It may be made a vehicle for either this, that or the other sort of deliberate opinion respecting the book, bespeaking for it nothing more than fair play in its turn; or it may be the avant courier - the clear-the-way guard to the main army of facts just ready to come up - but whatever nature it partakes of, there is no use in sorely grieving over its imperfections at so late an hour, and just as the battle for popularity is on the eve of being waged. Therefore, for my own part, while I have no such design as that of "boosting" my own literary wares through the world, neither will I consent to beg a generally well-disposed and liberal-minded Public to wink at what they honestly want to condemn. It has been said that when a man sets doggedly in his study, and says to himself, "I mean to write a good book," it is certain from the necessity of the case, that the result will be quite the contrary. If the result of my labors are of that stripe, it cannot be from this cause. I think I may claim a better standard, for no one except those who have been occupied in similar researches can have any just conception of the amount of harassing labor required to accomplish a fair work, where but precious little is left to the imagination, and every sentence contains a fact of greater or less importance. As a pioneer work, the.
Excerpt from Evansville, Her Commerce and Manufactures: A Descriptive Work of the Business Metropolis of Indiana Custom has made it quite necessary that every book that is sent out among the people, should have a Prefatory page which may serve to introduce it to favor and consideration, just as the rhymes do one another in the memorable "House that Jack Built." But, for the life of me, I never could understand why a Preface need always be an apology. If a man has written a book, and fairly put his heart and soul into what he has done, it is not so easy for him to tell what there is for him to be ashamed of. A Preface should not be a sniveling whine. It may be made a vehicle for either this, that or the other sort of deliberate opinion respecting the book, bespeaking for it nothing more than fair play in its turn; or it may be the avant courier - the clear-the-way guard to the main army of facts just ready to come up - but whatever nature it partakes of, there is no use in sorely grieving over its imperfections at so late an hour, and just as the battle for popularity is on the eve of being waged. Therefore, for my own part, while I have no such design as that of "boosting" my own literary wares through the world, neither will I consent to beg a generally well-disposed and liberal-minded Public to wink at what they honestly want to condemn. It has been said that when a man sets doggedly in his study, and says to himself, "I mean to write a good book," it is certain from the necessity of the case, that the result will be quite the contrary. If the result of my labors are of that stripe, it cannot be from this cause. I think I may claim a better standard, for no one except those who have been occupied in similar researches can have any just conception of the amount of harassing labor required to accomplish a fair work, where but precious little is left to the imagination, and every sentence contains a fact of greater or less importance. As a pioneer work, the.
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Evansville, Her Commerce and Manufactures: A Descriptive Work of the Business Metropolis of Indiana (Classic Reprint)
EN NWISBN: 9781330087855 bzw. 1330087852, in Englisch, FB &c Ltd, neu.
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