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Excerpt from The Stranger in America, Vol. 2 of 2: Comprising Sketches of the Manners, Society, and National Peculiarities of the United States, in a Series of Letters to a Friend in Europe The animal which comes nearest to the shape of man is the ugliest; gods and beggars go half naked, and kings and servants are called by their baptismal names; and Madame de Stael delighted in playing soubrettes, while sombre Shelley amused himself by letting little ships of paper float on the water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. No library descriptions found. |
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