A Book of Vagaries
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Paulding, James Kirke) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from A Book of Vagaries: Comprising the New Mirror for Travelers and Other Whim-Whams If a flower springs in his path, Nature put it there; and if he pricks his finger with a bramble while he stretches forth his hand to gather a blossom, a la bonne heure!, he must not complain, for, be sure, it will turn out a black-cap or a wild raspberry, and it was in the very constitution of things that they should be associated. It certainly is a charm, if it be not a merit, in Mr. Paulding´s writings, that they are absolutely unvarnished. If an exquisite thought came from him, "totus, teres, atque rotundus", we may be assured that it had not been rolled about and polished assiduously, like a jeweller´s work: - rather it was the natural gem of the mine. Indeed, as he prattles away in his careless fashion, we are sometimes reminded of the girl in the fairy-tale, who dropped pearls from her mouth in her ordinary talk. Above all, he was not of the men that say to themselves: - Go to; now let us be funny, - and who fetch up their tears with a rotary pump, that one can hear creak as they work at it. No: his humor flitted about, like the bobolink athwart the breeze, now on this tack now on that as the fancy took him, but with no more calculation about its effect upon men than the bird makes when he gushes blithely into song; while there was an ever-living spring of sentiment within him, stealing away, for the most part, unseen, like the natural overflow amid the grass, and only once in a while gleaming in the sunlight, because it happened to cross the sunlight´s path. The notion of attributing the papers to a "retired Commoncouncilman" was suggested by the title-page of "Chronicles of the City of Gotham": and, as it seemed to me not inappropriate, I have transferred the dedication of that volume to this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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