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" Nothing but an earnest desire for truth and good has led him to touch upon this subject at all. And if he refrains from offering hints as to the best mode of remedying the evils which are pointed out, it is only because he thinks, that after being made... "
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas - Page x
by Herman Melville - 1850 - 242 pages
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The United States Catholic Magazine and Monthly Review, Volume 7

1848 - 704 pages
...and in some instances, it has even been deemed advisable to quote previous voyagers in corroboralion of what is offered as the fruit of the author's own...to the best mode of remedying the evils which are * General Evidences of Catholicity, &c. By MJ Spalding, DD Appendix to Lecture III. See also USC Magazine,...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 98

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 520 pages
...satirist's rather flippant air in treating this subject makes his protestation not unnecessary, that " nothing but an earnest desire for truth and good has led him to touch upon it at all." Nevertheless, there is mournful emphasis in these revelations of mickonaree progress —...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 30

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 610 pages
...satirist's rather flippant air in treating this subject makes his protestation not unnecessary, that "nothing but an earnest desire for truth and good has led him to touch upon it at all." Nevertheless, there is mournful emphasis in these revelations of mickonaree progress —...
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The Open Court, Volume 40

Paul Carus - Religion - 1926 - 836 pages
...scrupulously observed ; and in some instances it has even been deemed advisable to quote previous voyages in corroboration of what is offered as the fruit of...good has led him to touch upon this subject at all." Melville was moved to many sad reflections when he compared the present condition of the natives with...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 27

Literature - 1850 - 644 pages
...of what is offered as ihe fruit of the author's own observations. Nothing but an earnest desire fur truth and good has led him to touch upon this subject...are pointed out, it is only because he thinks that auer being made acquainted with the facts, others are better qualified to do so. This paragraph plainly...
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Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (LOA #1)

Herman Melville - Fiction - 1982 - 1358 pages
...condition of the converted Polynesians, as affected by their promiscuous intercourse with foreigners, and the teachings of the missionaries, combined. As a...after being made acquainted with the facts, others arc better qualified to do so. Should a little jocosencss be shown upon some curious traits of the...
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Herman Melville: The Critical Heritage

Watson G. Branch - American fiction - 1997 - 472 pages
...missionary operations, a strict adherence to facts has, of course, been scrupulously observed. . . . Nothing but an earnest desire for truth and good has led him [the author] to touch upon this subject at all.' However he did protect himself by issuing a disclaimer...
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