Excerpt from Edward Trelawny: A Biographical Sketch Trelawny's school life was one long scene of suffering. Brutal treatment made him callous; every kind and gentle feeling of his naturally affectionate disposition seemed to have been subdued by his master's harsh and savage treatment. According to his own account, he began to vent his rage on the boys, and soon gained that respect by fear which he would not obtain by application to his books. He thus learnt his first lesson as to the necessity of depending on himself, and ...
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Excerpt from Edward Trelawny: A Biographical Sketch Trelawny's school life was one long scene of suffering. Brutal treatment made him callous; every kind and gentle feeling of his naturally affectionate disposition seemed to have been subdued by his master's harsh and savage treatment. According to his own account, he began to vent his rage on the boys, and soon gained that respect by fear which he would not obtain by application to his books. He thus learnt his first lesson as to the necessity of depending on himself, and the spirit within him was gathering strength, in despite of every endeavour to destroy it, like a young pine ourishing in the cleft of a bed of granite. 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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