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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. Autumnal Commencement of Fires?Mantel-Pieces?Apartments for Study. How pleasant it is to have fires again We have not time to regret summer, when the cold fogs begin to force us upon the necessity of a new kind of warmth;?a warmth not so fine as sunshine, but, as matters go, more sociable. The English get together over their fires, as the Italians do in their summer- shade. We do not enjoy our sunshine as we ought; our climate seems to render us almost unaware that the weather is fine, when it really becomes so: but for the same reason we make as much of our winter, as the anti-social habits that have grown upon us from other causes will allow. And for a similar reason, the southern European is unprepared for a cold day. The houses in many parts of Italy are summer-houses, unprepared for winter; so that when a fit of cold weather comes, the dismayed inhabitant, walking and shivering about with a little brazier in his hands, presents an awkward image of insufficiency and perplexity. A few of our fogs, shutting up the sight of everything out of doors, and making the trees and the eaves of the houses drip like rain, would admonish him to get warm in good earnest. If the web of our life is always to be of a mingled yarn, a good warm hearth-rug is not the worst part of the manufacture. Here we are then again, with our fire before us, and our books on each side. What shall we do ? Shall we take out a Life of somebody, or a Theocritus, or Petrarch, or Ariosto, or Montaigne, or Marcus Aurelius, or Moliere, or Shakspeare, who includes tnem all ? Or shall we read an engraving from Pous sin or Rapnael ? Or shall we sit with tilted chairs, planting our wrists upon our knees, and toasting the up-turned palms of our hands, while we discourse of manners and of man's heart...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217955027 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217955029 |
| Weight | 1.41 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.97 In |
| List Price | $24.86 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 436 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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