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Platform Echoes: Or, Living Truths for Head and Heart (Classic Reprint)
Platform Echoes Or Living Truths for Head and Heart - Classic Reprint Author:John Gough THE story of the life and work of John 13. Gough is the story of the progress of the temperance reformation for over forty years. I propose in these pages to give the essential facts in the history of that reformation, a movement as influential in its hearing on the welfare of the human race as any in the long campaign hetween light and darkness... more », good and evil; the essential facts, too, in the story of that life, a life dramatic in its experiences, and striking in its contrasts of sunlight and shadow, more so than is often to he seen on life's stage, whose tragedy and comedy tread so closely on each other's heels.
* It Is proper to state here, to guard against any possible misapprehension, that I was requested by the publishers to prepare tills introduction ; that 1 had no consultation with Mr. Gough respecting its character or contents, and derived no information from him In Its preparation, though, during his absence from home, I had access in his library to his records and scrap-
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I; HABIT-ITS TOWER, USE, AND ABUSE -HOW TO SUBDUE A TYRANT AND SECURE A FRIEND; What I Aim to Give -The Lessons of Experience - A Peculiar Clock- ''What on Earth Will That Fellow Do Next?"-"Oh, I Bite My Nails!"-Ridiculous Habits -Scene at a Railway Ticket-office - Memory-Recognizing a Deserter After Thirty Years-Slaves of Fashion - Description of the Suit I Wore at Twenty-one - The "Style" Forty Years Ago-A Stunning Attire-A Remarkable Inventory - Avarice-« less