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Excerpt from The Algerine Captive: Or, the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, Six Years a Prisoner Among the Algerines
Although a lover of literature, however frivolous, may be pleasing to the man of letters, ' yetfthere are two things to be deplored in it. The first is, that, while so many books are vended, they are not of our Own manufacture. If our wives and' daughters will wear gauze and ribbands, it is a pity they are not wrought In our own looms. The second misfortune Is, that novels, being the picture of the times, the New England reader 18 insensibly taught to admire the levity, and Often the vices, of the parent country. While the fancy ls enchants. Ed, the heart Is corrupted. The farmer's daughter, while she pities the misfortune of some modern heroine, is exposed to the attacks of vice, from which her Ignorance would have formed her surest Shield. If the yenglish novel does not inculcate.
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