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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IL THE PUZZLES OF A PURITAN BOY. pEQUESTING that the word boy may not be construed with strictness, and yet retaining it as the true one, I have resolved, because just at this moment I find my memory bright, clear, and strong, to put down, as they occur, some of the things which puzzled me when I first had to confront the world. These things have long ago taken rank with me as commonplaces and simple matters of fact. I notice that they are; and there an end, except that occasionally the agony returns; the pain which accompanied the original discovery?a pain which often amounts to a quite sincere desire that I had never been born? a desire which I can with truth declare had nothing to do, has nothing to do, with anything but absolutely disinterested observation of life. Of course one's own troubles, if any, intensify one's moods; but the surprises which I now record are such as came to me before the age of trouble; and the noticeable point is, that for years I used to think those facts were very exceptional which I now see to be very common. For years I fought against the belief in their reality; but I had to give way at last, though I still see life in the light in which I met my first surprises. And I have a firm confidence, that others see life in the same light, and will grant me some of their sympathy if they ever see those lines. 1. One of my earliest surprises had reference to Dinner. About dinner the world makes an astonishing fuss, and constantly treats it as if it were a motive of action. I once heard a lecture, by a very intelligent and cultivated man, delivered to a large audience of respectable people. At this lecture I got my first glimpse of the difficulty now before me. Franklin invited his opponents to dine with him, said the lecturer, and of ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217482233 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217482236 |
| Weight | 0.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.33 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 140 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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