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"I have obtained 'Volney's Ruins' from S . I conceal the book from these pious fearful people, who tremble at shadows; but to-night! to-night! when their eyes are closed in sleep, mine shall wake and read it. The frontispiece to this book gives me extraordinary pleasure.
Certain writers of the last century, long ago become only historically interesting, were for Richard an armoury whence he girded himself for the battles of the day; cheap reprints or translations of Malthus, of Robert Owen, of Volney's 'Ruins, of Thomas Paine, of sundry works of Voltaire, ranked upon his shelves. Alas, alas!
Volney says, "Provident nature having endowed the heart of man with inexhaustible hope, he set about finding happiness in this world, and failing in his efforts, he set out in his imagination and created a world for himself, where, free from tyrants, he could have all his wrongs redressed and enjoy unsullied bliss." This is Volney's account of the origin of religion, the tap-root of the tree.
Volney's father saw the accident, darted after her, and quickly caught her by the dress; but while with one hand he swam to reach the ship, and with the other held the child, he saw a shark advancing towards them. He called aloud for help; there was no time to lose, yet none dared to afford him any. No one, did I say?
He caused the daughter of the landlady of the inn at which he stopped to burn a copy of Volney's Ruins of Empire, because the author was an "emissary of Satan," the girl standing by telling her beads until the book were entirely consumed. Borrow had been greatly handicapped through the lack of letters of introduction to influential people in Portugal.
Is it possible that the miserable book of a writer, as full of pretension as weak and superficial, has been able thus to misguide you?" and with these words he took Volney's Ruins out of his pocket, and threw it upon the table. Sara started and reddened. "Ah," said she, "this is only another instance of espionage over me." "Not so," replied the Judge, calmly.
"All newspapers are dangerous in politics; there's none too mean to have its following. The Whig has influence." "It's a one-horse paper," reiterated Shelby. "M-yes; it is a slow coach," Bowers admitted; "but it suits a lot of people. They respect it because it keeps the old name and jogs along in the old gait it had under Volney's father before him.
Before Abraham Lincoln began the study of law, he was connected with a clique or club of young men, who made light of religion, and read books that treated it as a delusion. It was at this time that he read Paine's "Age of Reason" and Volney's "Ruins," through which he was influenced to array himself against the Bible for a time, as much of a skeptic, almost, as any one of his boon companions.
The American words are written according to the Spanish orthography. I would not change the orthography of the Nootka word onulszth, taken from Cook's Voyages, to show how much Volney's idea of introducing an uniform notation of sounds is worthy of attention, if not applied to the languages of the East written without vowels. In onulszth there are four signs for one single consonant.
"On Thursday nights," I said, defensively, "my wife and I play cribbage. On Sundays she reads to me the weekly letter from her mother. That law books are not a recreation remains yet to be established." That morning as I walked I was thinking of Doctor Volney's words. I was feeling as well as I usually did possibly in better spirits than usual.
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