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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DISOWNED. LEADING CHARACTERS. Algernon Mordaunt, the last son of an old and honorable race. Clarence Linden, alias Clinton L'estrange, The Disowned. Lord Bordaile, son and heir of the powerful Earl of Ulswater, and brother to Clinton L'Estrange. King Cole, a king of the gypsies. Mr. Talbot, a vain old bachelor, whose life has been devoted to literature. Mr. Brown, an eccentric vendor. Mr. and Mrs. Copperas, the former, a stock-jobber and wit, the latter, a fine lady and sentimentalist. Richard Crawford, a commercial man and a villain. Wolfe, an erratic would-be political reformer. Warner, a young artist. Isabel St. Leger, an orphan, the only child of a captain in the army. Lady Flora Ardenne, a young beauty, betrothed to L'Estrange. At the time this work was written I was deeply engaged in the study of metaphysics and ethics?and out of that study grew the character of Algernon Mordaunt. He is represented as a type of the Heroism of Christian Philosophy?an union of love and knowledge placed in the midst of sorrow, and laboring on through the pilgrimage of life, strong in the fortitude that comes from belief in Heaven. E. B. L. May, 1852. . GENERALLY ESTEEMED. There are few men who do not console themselves for not being generally loved, if they can reasonably hope that they are generally esteemed.?Book I. Chap. 6. Man's Love. Man's love, in general, is a selfish and exacting sentiment: it demands every sacrifice, and refuses all. But the nature of Mordaunt was essentially high and disinterested, and his honor, like his love, was not that of the world: it was the ethereal and spotless honor of a lofty and generous mind, the honor whichcustom can neither give nor take away; and, however impatiently he bore the deferring of a u...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217922135
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 98
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217922139
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 191 gr


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