The Book of the Pleasant Legends
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Excerpt from The Book of the Pleasant Legends: Throughtful Hours, and Tender Melodies, Secular and Scared, Being a Collection of Choice Selections We had occasion recently to visit one of the most beautiful sections of Pennsylvania, where mountain, valley, and stream combine to create the various types of landscape so necessary to the development of the poetical element in mans nature, and, while enjoying the peaceful quietude of a retired and unfrequented village, at the hospitable home of the village pastor, we met with a youth, of some eighteen or twenty years, whose history interested us greatly. We learned of him that he was born near the town of Gettysburg, in Adams County, Pennsylvania, if we rightly remember, in the year 1853, but when very young removed with his parents to the mountains in the southwestern part of his native county, where he yet resided at the time of our meeting. As we first saw him entering the pastor´s home, there was nothing very noticeable in his appearance. Rustic and unpretending in his manners and bearing, with no apparent effort to cultivate fashion or style, the main thing we observed was that he was a young man of thoughtful mould, earnest heart, clear eye, and an evident fixedness of purpose. Having a roll in his hand, he reminded us somewhat of Bunyan´s portraiture of the Pilgrim. From the estimable pastor we learned that he was a youth of uncommon natural abilities, and after having read a short literary production of his, were astonished at learning he was entirely self-taught. Reared in the midst of the friendly forest which yield to his father a scanty support, with no near neighbors and but few friends with whom to hold intercourse, the youth grew up in solitude, making his companions of the trees and flowers of the mountainside, the crystal bounding brooks and stream-lets, and the birds who awoke him with their early matinal warbling. With these surroundings, the tendency of most minds would have been toward the unthinking wildness of the "gentle savage." There was no incentive to intellectual exertion or improvement. But it seems that the majestic works of God were silent teachers to the thirsty soul of this boy. 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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