Doré (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Doré Gentle Buyer! the following Letters were written during a year's residence in Europe. As they were written on a third visit to that country, they will he like a man selecting his third wife, not caught by glare nor dazzled by show. They will endeavor to call every thing by its proper name, and nothing by an improper one. Therefore, when they meet Mephistopliiles dressed like a lord, and "blazing with the ruddy gold, " glancing at his club foot, they will not hesitate to say, "Sir, you are the devil!" Doré means simply the difference between the inside and outside of things, and as this difference has always struck the author more than any thing else in Europe, he has adopted that title more as a fit emblem of the position of the Old World than as a representation of the general tone of this work, which is merely a hook of travels, as little in the style of the guide-books as possible. 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.