The Life and Correspondence of John Foster
by John Foster
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217941501
Paperback|9780217941501
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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: My dear sir, believe me to remain most cordially your old friend, and, I should now add. humble servant, J. Foster. CXLIII. TO THE EET. JOSIAH HILL. Stapleton, June 22, 1827. .... I went to pass a week or two with an old friend and relation, a physician, in order to take his advice about anything remedial or palliative for the habitual weakness and frequent painful sensations of my eyes, which are failing sadly.?It often occurs to my thoughts how my John, and your James, are quit of all these mortal infirmities, grievances, and apprehensions; no longer involved in the frailty of our animated, endangered, and perishing clay; no longer dependent for their knowledge, their activity, their enjoyments, on these organs of matter; no longer having their foundation in the dust. But we shall not long stay behind; we, too, are fast advancing toward a separation from all these elements; let us hope and sedulously prepare to meet again in a nobler economy those who have already arrived there, and have carried our affections with them. .... I have just declined from conscious necessity and duty, on several accounts, a journey of three weeks through North Wales, with a little party of friends at Worcester, who kindly solicited me to take a seat in a young lady's elegant one horse vehicle, herself the driver. Snowdon the grand chain bridge romantic valleys, cataracts, castles, and all the rest It would truly have been a vast luxury. But, under the veto of ever so many causes combined, I am to see none of those things; some of which I did see about fifteen years since, in company with the person who is to be the- leader in this new expedition, ?and who tells me he has never since had an opportunity of inviting me under such favourable circumstances to renew the adventure...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217941501 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217941508 |
| Weight | 1.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.92 In |
| List Price | $23.37 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 412 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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