The life of Col. James Fisk, jr. ... of Miss Helen Josephine Mansfield ... of Edward L. Stokes ... and Hon. Wm. M. Tweed ... with a sketch of the grand duke Alexis, of Russia ...
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781425515256
Subjects: History / United States / General
First sentence: Aptly, yet inaptly, it has been said of the Americans, that they are a sensational people-that we have sensation in every form in which it can be dished up to suit the varied tastes of the millions-sensation in prose and poem-sensation in sermon and drama, and that our thirst for it is insatiate, following us to the deathbed and to the grave-and alas, that, if the holy rest of heaven is unbroken by thrilling and sensational episodes, we shall soon weary of its quiet, and complain of its monotony.