Arthur Mervyn by Charles Brockden Brown
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Title: Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
Author: Charles Brockden Brown
Release Date: June 5, 2006 [EBook #18508]
Language: English
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ARTHUR MERVYN;
OR,
MEMOIRS OF THE YEAR 1793.
BY
CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN.
"Fielding, Richardson, and Scott occupied pedestals. In a niche was deposited the bust of our countryman, the author of 'Arthur Mervyn.'"
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
PHILADELPHIA: DAVID McKAY, PUBLISHER,
23 SOUTH NINTH STREET. 1889.
PREFACE.
The evils of pestilence by which this city has lately been afflicted will probably form an era in its history. The schemes of reformation and improvement to which they will give birth, or, if no efforts of human wisdom can avail to avert the periodical visitations of this calamity, the change in manners and population which they will produce, will be, in the highest degree, memorable. They have already supplied new and copious materials for reflection to the physician and the political economist. They have not been less fertile of instruction to the moral observer,