The Black Dwarf

By Scott, Walter

Book Id: WPLBN0000676435
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 0.4 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Black Dwarf
Author:	Scott, Walter
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Walter Scott, B. S. (n.d.). The Black Dwarf. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Introduction: As I may, without vanity, presume that the name and official description prefixed to this Proem will secure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of mankind, to whom only I would be understood to address myself, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to hold up a candle to the daylight, or to point out to the judicious those recommendations of my labours which they must necessarily anticipate from the perusal of the title-page.