This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ... Nor will other luminaries arise to succeed these setting stars. Whatever instruments of great changes or workers of great mischief may still appear, will move in an orbit so distant from my reader s view, as scarcely to preserve in his eyes any impressive size. Henceforth I shall constantly have to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ... Nor will other luminaries arise to succeed these setting stars. Whatever instruments of great changes or workers of great mischief may still appear, will move in an orbit so distant from my reader s view, as scarcely to preserve in his eyes any impressive size. Henceforth I shall constantly have to thrust my own insignificant person foremost on the stage; and to draw from my own common place vicissitudes alone, all my means of interesting or attaching my readers. Nor is the want of great names, in whose radiance to walk, and on whose loftiness to raise my little stature, the only growing disadvantage of these pages. The humbler person on whom henceforth exclusively devolves the task of occupying the reader's attention, must even be resigned to lose, as the work advances, what little brilliancy might thus far inhere in himself, as well as the brighter light which he was enabled to cast around him by reflection. He no longer can expect to retain that power of exciting theinterest, or of obtaining the favor or the forgiveness of the world, which might have been hoped for in the earlier chapters of this confession. In these the discourse was concerning a raw stripling, --a youth hurried away by the restlessness of his incipient being: and the immaturity of adolescence, as it enhances the merit of what is good, so it disposes to view with indulgence what is reprehensible. Of the faults of a boy, the greater number are ascribed to his newness in the world, to his not yet being initiated in its manifold mysteries, to his not yet distrusting its older and warier tenants. The graces of youth secure the lenience of more advanced age: but that happy era, that period of delightful dreams once gone by, no more mercy must be looked for. Every action is..
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