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Ostentation; Or, Critical Remarks on 'Quakerism Or, the Story of My Life', by Mrs. Greer


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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. 1852. Excerpt: ... be flagrant falsehoods. She informs us, that for much less cause Friends have sought revenge in unrelenting persecution, and probably all the persons she has so kindly noticed are living characters; but wait until they are some five-andtwenty years dead, and then she will give their names, and fall on their memories without pity. I would not presume to offer advice to our fair author; but if she would condescend to take it in good part, my advice would be--to avoid particulars; to remember the unfortunate case of Sarah Mills' tenpenny pieces; and, above all things, to suppress dates. I am totally unacquainted with Bristol, but have often heard that the Society of Friends form a considerable portion of its most respectable population, and that they are an esteemed and influential body. I am informed, on authority which I cannot doubt, that the Society is respected and beloved as gentlemen and merchants, and that Mrs. Greer's comments and anecdotes are in no instance to be relied on. A most lamentable misfortune has attended on our gentle novelist from her earliest days. She has not, out of her own family, found one friend, male or female, worthy of her confidence. Her lot has been cast amongst hypocrites, liars, and abandoned swindlers. She has suffered more persecution by gentry of this class than has fallen to the lot of any other heroine that has figured in the pages of romance. It would be an endless task to comment on each act of hypocrisy, fraud, and deception, as they rise in the climax, exceeding each other in magnitude and enormity. Vidocq is a saint compared to the men, while Lola Montes would blush to acknowledge the women. If we believe Mrs. Greer, we are only astonished that such a band of miscreants could be tolerated for one month, or that t...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781459062221
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459062221
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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