Sustained Honor

By Musick, John R.

Book Id: WPLBN0000635774
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Title:	Sustained Honor
Author:	Musick, John R.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Preface: Written history is generally too scholastic to interest the great mass of readers. Dignified and formal, it deals mainly with great events, and often imperfectly with these, because, not pausing to present clear impression by the associations of individual life, it conveys a stiff and unnatural opinion of the past. Historians ignore the details which go to make up the grand sum total of history, and from the very best histories one can get but a meagre idea of the life and times of the people of bygone ages. It is these minor details of past events which lend to fiction its greatest charm, and attract the multitude, by appearing more like truth. Although untrue in the particular combinations, scenes and plots delineated, yet well written fiction is drawn from nature and experience, and these facts in life, as with chessmen, are only arranged in new but natural positions. History should include everything in the nature, character, customs and incidents, both general and individual, that contribute to originate what is peculiar in a people, or what causes their advancement or decline. So broad is its scope, that nothing is too mighty for its grasp?so searching, scarce anything is too minute. Were written history a clear transcript of valuable incidents, it would be more enticing than the most fascinating fiction.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Sustained Honor, 1 -- John R. Musick, 1 -- Preface, 2 -- Chapter I. THE YOUNG EMIGRANT, 3 -- Chapter II. MORGIANNA, 9 -- Chapter III. JEFFERSONIANISM, 17 -- Chapter IV. BRITISH CRUISERS, 22 -- Chapter V. FERNANDO'S JOURNEY EAST. HE MEETS WITH QUEER PEOPLE, 31 -- Chapter VI. WAR FEELING OF 1811, 41 -- Chapter VII. FERNANDO'S FRIEND GETS HIM INTO A SERIOUS SCRAPE, 46 -- Chapter VIII. THE BELLE OF THE BEACH, 56 -- Chapter IX. THE ENGLISHMAN'S DILEMMA, 65 -- Chapter X. THE SILENT GUNNER, 74 -- Chapter XI. SHIPWRECK?ESCAPE AND RETURN TO OHIO, 83 -- Chapter XII. WAR, 88 -- Chapter XIII. THE PEACE PARTY, 94 -- Chapter XIV. FERNANDO SEES SERVICE, 103 -- Chapter XV. ON LAND, 113 -- Chapter XVI. ON WATER, 118 -- Chapter XVII. THE CRUISER'S THREAT, 125 -- Chapter XVIII. THE SAVING SHOT, 135 -- Chapter XIX. NEW ORLEANS, 145 -- Chapter XX. Conclusion, 153