Excerpt from Reginald Dalton, Vol. 2 of 3 There can be no doubt, that, in many more ways than this, the peculiar habits and temper of Reginald's tutor were a great misfortune to our youth. That he was the most deeply-read man in all the College, was comparatively a small ad vantage, when those great acquirements were cou pled with personal habits which prevented their possessor from knowing almost any thing from other people about the way in which his pupil lived; and, what was still worse, with a shyness and reserve, the ...
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Excerpt from Reginald Dalton, Vol. 2 of 3 There can be no doubt, that, in many more ways than this, the peculiar habits and temper of Reginald's tutor were a great misfortune to our youth. That he was the most deeply-read man in all the College, was comparatively a small ad vantage, when those great acquirements were cou pled with personal habits which prevented their possessor from knowing almost any thing from other people about the way in which his pupil lived; and, what was still worse, with a shyness and reserve, the natural consequences of total seclusion, such as rendered it almost impossible that even the frankness of one originally disposed to make no secrets, should not have gradually become chilled and repressed under the influence of his presence. By degrees Reginald came to partake in those feelings of restraint, without which no one, for a long period of time, had ever been accustomed to approach this melancholy te cluse; for once, a virtuous act, (for such certainly was his original choice of Barton's tutorship, ) led directly and immediately to evil results and he who, under the guidance of a less learned, but. 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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