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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. 1860. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. DE PROFUNDIS. A Discontented and irreligious writer, whom happily the improved morality of the age has consigned to well-deserved oblivion, used to say that life was like a journey down into the country, and that the farther one left the capital behind the more intolerable did the discomforts of each stage become: the dust was thicker, the posting worse, the ruts jolted more cruelly, the road-side accommodation grew scantier, till at last the weary traveler came thankfully to an end, and accepted the prospect of even the most inhospitable quarters with a certain sort of satisfaction at having done with so thankless and heart-wearing a business. Every cheerful mind would deprecate so depressing a comparison. In our ill-natured moments we may fancy that every thing goes against us: the stars in their courses may bend a malign influence on our fates, the world may seem ingeniously contrived pour nous /aire enrager, and mea but the wretched victims of its degradations and inconveniences; but presently the clouds break, the sunshine lights up our very grievances into something pleasant and picturesque; we pass twenty people on the road faring worse than we, and so preach ourselves a homily on the absurdity of grumbling, banish weariness or melancholy with the best cheer our purses allow, and go about our business without farther protestation or complaint. If Wynne kept his grumbling to himself, it was not because that part of the journey about which he was just now engaged was especially smooth or pleasant walking. His third decade was already half completed, and the romances of an imaginative youth had been effectually put to flight by the prosaic realities of later years. Success, which once looked so close, had receded as he reached his hand to...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 145899399X
- ISBN 13 9781458993991
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages64
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