Memoirs of Bryan Perdue; a Novel

Memoirs of Bryan Perdue; a Novel PDF

Author: Thomas Holcroft

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781230233581

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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. 1805 edition. Excerpt: ... men, and all men, delight to gratify, are questions that were not brought to the test, and therefore must remain undecided. At my present time of life, I cannot disapprove the determination, which it seems he then made, of not suffering me to be the travelling companion of George. Perhaps the father rightly enough conjectured that the son had a sufficient propensity for the gamingtable, without the aid of a tempter. With respect to the plan of educating me to be a country curate, or even as Mr. Saville said of obtaining some trifling church preferment, I unfortunately looked on it with contempt. I little understood in what.the happiness of life consists; that sweet content is the greatest of riches; and that the pleasures of idleness, or of fashion, are but delusive demons, that incessantly torment those by whom they are pursued. I knew not how beneficial, to the people among whom he may live, and how useful even in seclusion, having leisure and talents, a country curate may become. Oh that I had then understood the character and the worth of my dear friend, the vicar of our parish! In any case, I was introduced, or ra, ther recommended, as a dependent, wKo was to perform the duty of a clerk to his friend, Mr. Hazard. I had willingly given my consent; for I had a sincere desire rather to devote myself to honest industry than to be ranked as the companion of the vicious, and be obliged to practise arts, which, as my understanding opened, I began sincerely to despise. Let me however observe, it is to youth a dreadful trial to have the means of vice in their power; for their..passions are in the utmost danger, or rather in the greatest certainty, of rendering temptation irresistible. At present, I can sit and reason on such situations very..

Memoirs of Bryan Perdue, Vol. 1 of 3

Memoirs of Bryan Perdue, Vol. 1 of 3 PDF

Author: Thomas Holcroft

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-18

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780484073387

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Excerpt from Memoirs of Bryan Perdue, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel Whenev'er I have undertaken. To write a novel, I have proposed to. Myself a Specific moral purpose, This, purpose, in Anna st.-ives, was to teach fortitude to females: in Hugh Trevor, to induce youth (or their parents) carefully to inquire into the morality of the profession which each might, intend for hink 2 self: and, 'in the present Work, 'to, induce all humane and thinking men, such as legislators ought to he and often are, to consider the; p general and the adventitious value' 5} of human life, and the moral ten: 3 deney of our penal laws.' C -to exemplify this doctrine, it was necessary that the hero of thefable should offend those lav'vs, that his life should be in jeopardy, and that he should possess not only, a strong leaven of virtue but high powers of mind, such as to induce the heart to shrink, at the recollec-j tion that such a man might have been legally put to death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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