Excerpt from The Life-Work of Pliny the Younger They divert me and give me a welcome rest. Sometimes I go out hunting, but never forget my journal; I return home, if with no wild beast that I have slain, at least with some literary trophy. I devote some hours to my colonists (peasants who hire the land), too few hours in their opinion. But the ever lasting complaints of the country-folk are a perpetual bar to me, interfering seriously with any devotion on my part to the study of our literature or to the events of our ...
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Excerpt from The Life-Work of Pliny the Younger They divert me and give me a welcome rest. Sometimes I go out hunting, but never forget my journal; I return home, if with no wild beast that I have slain, at least with some literary trophy. I devote some hours to my colonists (peasants who hire the land), too few hours in their opinion. But the ever lasting complaints of the country-folk are a perpetual bar to me, interfering seriously with any devotion on my part to the study of our literature or to the events of our political life. Farewell. In the letter of Pliny here quoted, is to be found that element which we So rarely meet with in historic memoirs - the everyday Side of life. The Letters of Pliny the Younger, one of the most remarkable books handed down to us by antiquity, belongs to a class of literature quite apart from, yet in close harmony with, the taste of our own age, ex cluding as it does all that is external and relative; somewhat superficial, but there fore only the more graceful and pleasingly original. One reads this precious little volume like an interesting novel full of living characters, movements and emotions. It issomething in the style of our diaries and family journals, or of the memoirs of the eighteenth century. 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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