A Christmas Sermon

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A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson, marked New York 1900, has a writer who says that by the time this paper appears he shall have been talking for twelve months, and that it is thought he should take his leave in a formal and seasonable manner. The text names Charles Second, wit and sceptic, and the famous "I am afraid, gentlemen, I am an unconscionable time a-dying."

A tale in Tacitus tells of the veterans who mutinied in the German wilderness and mobbed Germanicus, clamouring to go home. The writer ventures to call certain moralists insincere, saying that they admit envy, malice and the mean lie are wrong, yet somehow not so wrong. The writer takes a memorial piece from a recent book of verse and says it says better than he can what he loves to think, "let it be our parting word."

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).