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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: for myself. I read all Captain Marryat's novels, without ever wishing to go to sea; traversed the field of Waterloo without the slightest inclination to be a soldier; went on ideal fishing with Isaac Walton without ever casting a fly; and knew Cooper's Deerslayer and Pathfinder almost by heart, without handling anything but a popgun, or having any paths to find beyond the solitudes of Gipsy Hill. I used sometimes to tell myself stories of campaigns in which I was an ingenious general, or caverns in which I discovered veins of gold; but these were merely to fill vacancies of fancy, and had no reference whatever to things actual or feasible. I already disliked growing older, ?never expected to be wiser, and formed no more plans for the future than a little black silkworm does in the middle of its first mulberry leaf. CHAPTER T SCHAFFHAUSEN AND MILAN. The visit to the field of Waterloo, spoken of by chance in last chapter, must have been when I was five years old, ?on the occasion of papa and mamma's taking a fancy to see Paris in its festivities following the coronation of Charles X. We stayed several weeks in Paris, in a quiet family inn, and then some days at Brussels, ?but I have no memory whatever of intermediate stages. It seems to me, on revision of those matin times, that I was very slow in receiving impressions, and needed to stop two or three days at least in a place, before I began to get a notion of it; but the notion, once got, was, as far as it went, always right; and since I had no occasion afterward to modify it, other impressions fell awav from that principal one, and disappeared altogether. Hence what people call my prejudiced views of things, ?which are. in fact, the exact contrary, namely, post-judiced. (I do not mean to introduce this word for gene...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217757089 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217757081 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $24.11 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 274 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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