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This Quaint Victorian Text Tells A Humorous Tale Explaining How Saint Dunstan Of Glastonbury Beat The Devil With The Protective Use Of The Horse Shoe.

The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil: Showing how the Horse-Shoe Came to be a Charm Against Witchcraft. "A man's worst wish for his enemy is that he might write a book," is a generally-received notion, of whose accuracy it is hoped there is no impertinence in suggesting a doubt. To reflect on having contributed, however slightly, to the innocent amusement of others, without giving pain to any, is alone an enjoyment well worth writing for. But when even so unpretending a trifle as this is, can, besides, bring around its obscure author fresh and valuable friendships, the hackneyed exclamation would appear more intelligible if rendered thus: "Oh, that my friend would write a book " In former days, possibly, things may have been very different from what they now are. Haply, the literary highway may, heretofore, have been not particularly clean, choked with rubbish, badly drained, ill lighted, not always well paved even with good intentions, and beset with dangerous characters, bilious-looking Thugs, prowling about, ready to pounce upon, hocus, strangle, and pillage any new arrival. But all that is now changed. Now, the path of literature is all velvet and roses. The race of quacks and impostors has become as extinct, as are the saurian and the dodo; and every honest flourisher of the pen, instead of being tarred and feathered, is hailed as a welcome addition to "the united happy family"-of letters.

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Title: The Horse Shoe, the true legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil; showing how the horse shoe came to be a charm against witchcraft ... With illustrations drawn by G. Cruickshank, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Flight, Edward G.; Cruikshank, George; 1852. 8 . 11645.ff.12.(11.)

This Quaint Victorian Text Tells A Humorous Tale Explaining How Saint Dunstan Of Glastonbury Beat The Devil With The Protective Use Of The Horse Shoe.

This Quaint Victorian Text Tells A Humorous Tale Explaining How Saint Dunstan Of Glastonbury Beat The Devil With The Protective Use Of The Horse Shoe.