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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1867 Excerpt: ... THE MIDSHIPMAN AND THE MINISTER. BIOGRAPHY is a mirror in which human nature is seen in all its moods, phases, features, attitudes, and actions, good or bad, debasing or meritorious, and in which he who looks may obtain glimpses of himself.." Men of like passions with ourselves"-is a thread that runs through the whole web of human life. We see, to return to our first allusion, what we were, what we are, and what we may become. The individuals contemplated were inheritors of the same infirmities, assailed by the same temptations, sustained the same conflicts, and had the same difficulties to surmount as ourselves; thus, leaving us inexcusable if we do not, according to ability, means, and opportunity, attain the same height which they attained, in our own particular line, and arrive at the same enjoyments in our own devotions and religious experience. Biography, it has been justly observed, sets before us the whole character of a person who has rendered himself conspicuous, either by his virtues or his vices--shows us how he came first to take a right or a wrong turn--the prospects which invited him to aspire after higher degrees of glory, or the delusions which led him from the path of purity and peace; the circumstances which raised him to dignity and honour, or the rocks on which he split, and sunk to infamy. As to the subjects portrayed, we are, generally speaking, instructed by their wisdom, warned by their miscarriages, and encouraged by their virtues. In every nation, in every large district, and in almost every town, there are individuals whose names, associated with the name of the place, have a spell to arrest and to fascinate every visitor, or way-f'arer passing through, and which,, like epic themes, as has been observed, preserve, as by prescript...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151606456
- ISBN 13 9781151606457
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages40
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