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. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...heather hills of Scotland eighty years ago. My eyes and ears fail, but this defect is greatly mitigated by borrowing the young eyes of my partner for life. She is an excellent reader, is ever at my side, soothing my path to the banks of Jordan--the noise of. those waters is sounding in my ears. Yours, ...
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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. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...heather hills of Scotland eighty years ago. My eyes and ears fail, but this defect is greatly mitigated by borrowing the young eyes of my partner for life. She is an excellent reader, is ever at my side, soothing my path to the banks of Jordan--the noise of. those waters is sounding in my ears. Yours, Grant Thorburn." Such diminished strength of eyesight, and other organs of sense, is, of course, not unusual at this time of life, and yet noteworthy exceptions are all the while occurring. Barocchio could paint, and Milton's father read without the aid of spectacles. Thomas Jefferson had not lost a tooth. Mental activity, exhibited in literary and artistic industry, has sometimes been witnessed. Bellini's paintings showed no signs of feebleness. Dr. Alexander Nowell was elected Principal of Brasenose College, and for six years retained apparently the full vigor of his faculties. Thomas Hobbes composed, in Latin hexameter and pentameter verses, an amusing account of his own fortunes; and Vondel, the most eminent poet of Holland, translated Ovid's Metamorphoses into Dutch verses. At the same age Benjamin Franklin composed his humorous rejoinder to the proslavery speech delivered in Congress by Jackson, of Georgia. Baron Bunsen wrote: " Herr von Raumer, who is chief of the ministerial section concerned with the affairs of Rome, and who in fact carries on the correspondence with me, is eighty-four years of age, and I had been prepared to find him pedantic; but I was touched more than I can express by his childlike openness and kindness. I found that all I had written was present to his mind, and you will believe that I was happy and thankful not to have labored in vain." Bodily vigor and literary activity at this period may sometimes be enjoyed...
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Add this copy of Our Birthdays, Toward Sunset: Seventy One to One to cart. $57.07, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Kessinger Publishing.
