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In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some features of nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation. Horror, in this case, is due to Mr. Parnell: he sits before posterity silent, Mr. Forster's appeal echoing down the ages. Horror is due to ourselves, in that we have so long coquetted with political crime; not seriously weighing, not acutely following it from cause to consequence; but with a generous, unfounded heat of sentiment, like the schoolboy with the penny tale, applauding what was specious. When it touched ourselves (truly in a vile shape), we proved false to the imaginations; discovered, in a clap, that crime was no less cruel and no less ugly under sounding names; and recoiled from our false deities. . . .

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Dynamiter
• Author: Stevenson, Fanny, van de Grift
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184
• EAN: 9781598186970
• ISBN: 9781598186970
• ID: 08763526
• Publisher: Alan Rodgers Books
• Weight: 279 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2005

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