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The Works of GPR James, Esq. Volume 17
(University of California, Davis)
GOWRIE:
OR,
THE KING'S PLOT.
BY
G. P. R. JAMES, ESQ.
LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.
STATIONERS' HALL COURT.
MDCCCXLVIII.
THE WORKS
OF
G. P. R. JAMES, ESQ.
REVISED AND CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR.
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY PREFACE.
"D'autres auteurs l'ont encore plus avili, (le roman,) en y mêlant lestableaux dégoutant du vice; et tandis que le premier avantage desfictions est de rassembler autour de l'homme tout ce qui, dans lanature, peut lui servir de leçon ou de modèle, on a imaginé qu'ontirerait une utilité quelconque des peintures odieuses de mauvaisesmœ urs; comme si elles pouvaient jamais; laisser le cœ ur qui lesrepousse, dans une situation aussi pure que le cœ ur qui les auraittoujours Ignorées. Mais un roman tel qu'on peut le concevoir, tel quenous en avons quelques modèles, est une des plus belles productions del'esprit humain, une des plus influentes sur la morale des individus,qui doit former ensuite les mœ urs publiques."--Madame de Staël.Essai sur les Fictions.
"Poca favilla gran flamma seconda:
Forse diretro a me, con miglior voci
Si pregherà, perchè Cirra risonda."
Dante. Paradiso, CantoI.
VOL. XVII.
GOWRIE.
LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.
STATIONERS' HALL COURT.
MDCCCXLVIII.
NOTICE.
The Author is aware that the Frontispiece of this Work is very bad; butin justice to the Engraver, he thinks it fair to state, that inconsequence of a necessary change in the publishing arrangements, aspace of time totally insufficient was all that could be allowed forthe device of a subject, and the execution of the plate. Anotherillustration, for insertion in "Gowrie," will be given in thesucceeding volume of this edition.
TO
HER GRACE
THE DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
Madam,
Man's mind lives too much upon credit. We borrow our thoughts andopinions, and too often trade with the intellectual property ofothers, when it would be much better for every man to cultivate hisown little field, and bring its original produce to market, if hewould but be content with what God has given him.
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