The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Genre: LiteratureThe Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
not written by Mrs. Eddy, but was handed down to her eighteen hundred years ago by the Angel of the Apocalypse; but did she translate it al
een centuries ago, and in my opinion no English language-at least up there. This makes it substantially certain that the Anne
nd the sentences are smooth and plausible though they do not mean anything. I think I am right in this surmise, for Mrs. Eddy cannot write English to-day, and this is argument that she never could. I am not
neous, undoctored English furnishes ample proof of this. Here are samples from recent articles from her unappeasable pen; do
spot, 'Therefo
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of this patient's
bringing by both s
e? arguing the o
titute that regard
vitals (sic) rep
things, healthful
cetera. (P. and
article impossible f
tive-by to feel p
.') thirsty or sic
sprang u
cars run 'Man is
gh several Mind is
sidewalks cannot
ads dotted is both
et cetera. tempt
ner, the di
f its cause. It i
ed little in sickne
save to (sic) st
eleton understand
thing (sic) real,
ren (sic) destroy it
it is the unive
' (Chap
ne
lumbering, ragged, ignorant output of the translator's natural, spontaneous, and unmedicated penwork. The E
at the insides of the metropolis and bringing its heart on bended knee, thus exposing to the eye the rest of the skeleton breathing slowly through a barren b
his coat and vest and cravat and 'demonstrate over' it a couple of weeks and sweat it into a shape something like
's morals? It was a social club which propagated an interest i
nto wooded parks, the merry electric car replaced the melancholy 'bus, smooth concrete
s little left to admire save the wreck
ous remark. There is a most elaborate and volu
tudent to find any thought or