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GUY RIVERS:
A TALE OF GEORGIA.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “MARTIN FABER.”
“Who wants
A sequel, may read on. Th' unvarnish'd tale,
That follows, will supply the place of one.”
Rogers.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
NEW-YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS—82 CLIFF-STREET.
1884.
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Acknowledgment
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[Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1834, by
Harper & Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District
of New-York.]
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Acknowledgment
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TO CHARLES R. CARROLL, ESQ.,
OF SOUTH-CAROLINA—
To the true friend, who, from boyhood to manhood,
has always maintained for me the same countenance—
whose friendship no change of situation or circumstance
has impaired or affected—whose advice has counselled—
whose regards have cheered—whose encouragement,
when I would have desponded, has stimulated and
strengthened—who would not let me fear, and who
taught me a familiar habit of hope—I dedicate this
book, with the single wish,—not to seem extravagantly
selfish,—that it may appear as worthy in the sight of
others as he is estimable in mine.
THE AUTHOR.
New-York, April 17, 1834.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
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A few words by way of introduction, and `Guy Rivers'
must make his farther progress alone. The author can
have little to say, in this place, which would materially
avail in securing for him a favourable reception from
the various circle into which he will most probably go.
A single sentence, from the German of Schiller, which
the reader will find the subject of frequent illustration
in the narrative, as he proceeds, will answer all the purposes
of a preface. “Grant us,” said that sagacious
moralist, in the course of a story not more remarkable
for its simplicity than its strength—“grant us only a
Linnæus for the classification of the impulses and passions
of man, as in the other kingdoms of the natural
world, and many, whose career of crime is now confined
within the limits of a little town, and hedged in by municipal
regulation, we should be surprised to find connected,
in one and the same order, with the monster
Borgia.” The author of `Guy Rivers' has had this text
in his eye in much of the narrative that follows. He
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has endeavoured, however feebly, to extend the glance
somewhat into causes, which, in most cases of moral
analysis, is quite too much confined to effects. He will
be understood readily, therefore, when he offers the story,
not merely to those who read, but to those who think—
to those who—unrestrained by the moral cant, which,
permitting the surgeon to probe the wound of the human
body, is unwilling to grant the physician of the human
mind a like privilege—penetrating the superficies and
externals of man and society, are studious in tracing out
the origin of those thousand moral obliquities in our
fellows, upon which, though we always moralize, we
cannot often be said to meditate.
Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 [1834], A tale of Georgia, volume 1 (Harper & Brothers, New York) [word count] [eaf356v1].
