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Title: A Christmas Sermon
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Release Date: December 30, 2004 [eBook #14535]
Language: English
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A CHRISTMAS SERMON
by
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
New York
1900
A CHRISTMAS SERMON
By the time this paper appears, I shall have been talking for twelve
months;[1] and it is thought I should take my leave in a formal and
seasonable manner. Valedictory eloquence is rare, and death-bed sayings
have not often hit the mark of the occasion. Charles Second, wit and
sceptic, a man whose life had been one long lesson in human incredulity,
an easy-going comrade, a manoeuvring king--remembered and embodied all
his wit and scepticism along with more than his usual good humour in the
famous "I am afraid, gentlemen, I am an unconscionable time a-dying.
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