This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTION OF THE TITLE PAGE OF WEEMS' POWERFUL AND REALISTIC PAMPHLET AGAINST THE PREVAILING VICE OF HIS GENERATION. REDUCED. point of literary effect, one does not care to read a second time the page which contains it. In God's Revenge Against Murder, the evil influence of low environment and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTION OF THE TITLE PAGE OF WEEMS' POWERFUL AND REALISTIC PAMPHLET AGAINST THE PREVAILING VICE OF HIS GENERATION. REDUCED. point of literary effect, one does not care to read a second time the page which contains it. In God's Revenge Against Murder, the evil influence of low environment and of the parental neglect of children alike conspire to the undoing of a young South Carolinian and the hapless wife whom he kills with shocking brutality. It is like the other pamphlets in its description of sordid wretchedness, and like them, too, in its undoubted power, but except that it possesses some local historical interest, there is little more that need be said about it. The Philanthropist, an olive branch held out to opposing "Adamsites and Jeffersonians," has an interest of its own in that it has to do with the stirring political questions of that day. Its sane treatment of the issues won for it a general commendation. God's Revenge J gainst Duelling and the Bad Wife's Looking Glass are much of a type with the other moral dissertations which have been described. It is a pleasure to turn from these barbaric and in the main successful attempts to badger people into an observance of the Decalogue to that one of Weems' pamphlets which is a type of his jocularly earnest nature. The title, indicative of its style and contents, is Hymen's Recruiting Sergeant; or the New Matrimonial Tat-too for Old Bachelors. As early as 1805 " we find him suggesting to a publisher that a third edition of the pamphlet consisting of 1000 copies would be profitable, and at as late a date as 1840, new editions were being issued by different publishers in various parts of the country. In this seriously meant entreaty to the unmarried to enter upon and enjoy...
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