(November 13, 1850\u2013December 3, 1894), was a Scottish author and novelist. He wrote: New Arabian Nights,<\/i> 1882; Treasure Island,<\/i> 1883; A Child\u2019s Garden of Verses,<\/i> 1885; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,<\/i> 1886; and Kidnapped,<\/i> 1886. He suffered from tuberculosis, and in an effort to improve his health, sailed with his American wife to the Island of Samoa. They settled there and he continued to write.<\/p>\n
In Songs of Travel\u2014If This Were Faith,<\/i> Stevenson wrote:<\/p>\n
God, if this were enough,<\/p>\n
That I see things bare to the buff.2895<\/p>\n
In 1889, in his work The Master of Ballantrae\u2014Mr. Mackellar\u2019s Journey,<\/i> Stevenson wrote:<\/p>\n
Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is\u2014nor yet so good a Christian.2896<\/p>\n
Shortly before he died, Stevenson wrote:<\/p>\n
Written in the East, these characters live forever in the West; written in one province, they pervade the world; penned in rude times, they are prized more and more as civilization advances; product of antiquity, they come home to the bosoms of men, women, and children in modern days. Then is it any exaggeration to say that the \u201ccharacters of the Scripture are a marvel of the mind?\u201d2897<\/p>\n
On the bronze memorial to him in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s prayer is engraved:<\/p>\n
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.2898<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(November 13, 1850\u2013December 3, 1894), was a Scottish author and novelist. He wrote: New Arabian Nights, 1882; Treasure Island, 1883; A Child\u2019s Garden of Verses, 1885; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886; and Kidnapped, 1886. He suffered from tuberculosis, and in an effort to improve his health, sailed with his American wife to the Island … Continue reading “STEVENSON,
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