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The Wilderness, Or, Braddock's Times; a Tale of the West Volume 1-2 by James M'Henry Pdf
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII. There is a high and mystic spell, With which great minds supremely sway O'er those of grosser mould; Whose nameless potency obey--The coward and the bold, Nor of its source aright the history can tell. On human fate in darkest hour, Its beams of light can fall, And some its intellectual power, Belbre whose dazzling beam they cower, The might of magic call. Baseet Of Scraps. There is many a fair lady in America, who, I doubt not, will think it a great pity that the illustrious character, who had thus become a captive to Maria's charms, should have been fated to throw away the ardent affections of his manly heart upon one who could not return them. Such a one will regret much, that he had not visited the Wilderness a year sooner, when the probability would have been, thit he should then have gained that ascendancy over her feelings, which Charles Adderly now possessed. Nay, there will be some inclined to challenge the accuracy of our heroine's taste and discernment, in not, at once, giving the preference to her new lover--whom we know now to have been born to the glorious destiny of establishing a new and triumphant era for the rights and dignities of man! If ever, indeed, a deviation from the rigid line of constancy in love could admit of apology, it would have been in this instance: but Maria Frazier, like the noble-hearted youth who had now become devoted to her, was resolved never, with her knowledge, to do anything that should require apology. In justification of her discernment, we will say, that she clearly saw all Washington's merits; and although she could not foresee all his future greatness, she esteemed and respected him as much as if she did. At all events, had he been even then the conqueror of Cornwallis, and...
