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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: CHAPTER III. THE BANKS OF TAY. r IHE reader has, I hope, observed that . in all I have hitherto said, emphasis has been laid only on the favourable conditions which surrounded the child whose history I am writing, and on the docile and impressionable quietness of its temper. No claim has been made for it to any special power or capacity; for, indeed, none such existed, except that patience in looking, and precision in feeling, which afterwards, with due industry, formed my analytic power. In all essential qualities of genius, except these, I was deficient; my memory only of average power. I have literally never known a child so incapable of acting a part, or telling a tale. On the other hand, I havenever known one whose thirst for visible fact was at once so eager and so methodic. I find also that in the foregoing accounts, modest as I meant them to be, higher literature is too boastfully spoken of as my first and exclusive study. My little Pope's Iliad, and, in any understanding of them, my Genesis and Exodus, were certainly of little account with me till after I was ten. My calf milk of books was, on the lighter side, composed of Dame Wiggins of Lee, the Peacock at Home, and the like nursery rhymes; and on the graver side, of Miss Edgeworth's Frank, and Harry and Lucy, combined with Joyce's scientific dialogues. The earliest dated efforts I can find, indicating incipient motion of brain-molecules, are six 'poems' on subjects selected from those works; between the fourth and fifth of which my mother has written: January, 1826. This book begun about September or October, 1826, finished about January, 1827. The whole of it, therefore, was written and printed in imitation of book- print, in my seventh year. The book is a little red one, ruled with blue, six inch...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217531740 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217531741 |
| Weight | 0.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.32 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 138 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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