Excerpt from Memoir of Robert Wheaton: With Selections From His Writings The young man who came daily to give him lessons, had just lost his mother, and this misfortune, joined to ill health, poverty, and the cares of a numerous family, rendered him really an object of compassion. The children were enjoined on no account to say or do any thing to annoy him during the lesson. But Robert, with the thoughtlessness of childhood, disobeyed this injunction, and the punishment inflicted on him, al though no very severe one, ...
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Excerpt from Memoir of Robert Wheaton: With Selections From His Writings The young man who came daily to give him lessons, had just lost his mother, and this misfortune, joined to ill health, poverty, and the cares of a numerous family, rendered him really an object of compassion. The children were enjoined on no account to say or do any thing to annoy him during the lesson. But Robert, with the thoughtlessness of childhood, disobeyed this injunction, and the punishment inflicted on him, al though no very severe one, probably had the desired cfi'ect, as the circumstance seemed to have made an indelible impression on his mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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