The book An American Patrician Or the Story of Aaron Burr was written by author Lewis Alfred Henry Here you can read free online of An American Patrician Or the Story of Aaron Burr book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is An American Patrician Or the Story of Aaron Burr a good or bad book?
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The books he likes are heavy, while his best-liked wines are light. He reads Jeremy Bentham; also he finds comfort in William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. He adorns his study with a portrait of the lady ; which feat in decoration furnishes the prudish a pang. These book radicalisms, and his weaknesses for alarming doctrines, social and political, do not help Aaron s standing with respectable hypocrites, of whom there are vast numbers about, and who in its fashion and commerce and politics gi...ve the town a tone. These whited sepulchers of society purse discreet yet condem- 10 129 AN AMERICAN PATRICIAN natory lips when Aaron s name is mentioned, and speak of him as favoring " Benthamism " and " Godwinism. " Our dullard pharisee folk know no more of " Benthamism " and " God winism " in their definitions, than of plant life in the planet Mars ; but their manner is the man ner of ones who speak of evils tenfold worse than murder. Aaron pays no heed ; neither does he fret over the innuendoes of these hypocritical ones.
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