Excerpt from The Cloister the Hearth, Vol. 1: Or Maid, Wife, and Widow; A Matter-of-Fact Romance

Not a day passes the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows. Of these obscure heroes, philosophers, and martyrs the greater part will never be known till that hour when many that are great shall be small, and the small great: but of others the world's knowledge may be said to sleep; their lives and characters lie hidden from nations in the annals that record them. The general reader cannot feel them, they are presented so curtly and coldly; they are not like breathing stories appealing to his heart, but little historic hailstones striking him but to glance off his bosom: nor can he understand them, for epitomes are not narratives, as skeletons are not; human figures.

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