Ancient Streets And Homesteads Of England Classic Reprint

Author : Anna Robeson Brown Burr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330863213
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The House on Charles Street (Classic Reprint) written by Anna Robeson Brown Burr and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The House on Charles Street Most of us who had read our lives by the dying sunset of the nineteenth century, probably accepted the generalizations that after evolution comes dissolution, and after intellectual advance there is bound to be emotional reaction. But none of us expected to witness this dissolution, or to experience this reaction. Crises have a way of diffusing themselves so that they are only recognized after they are passed; and few societies in the world's history have had self-consciousness enough to realize the significance of what befell them. Once or twice, however, in human affairs, it has been otherwise: and mankind has undergone an unforgettable crisis in beholding - with complete realization of what it means - the portentous operation of Natural Law. In this vast convulsion all human atoms are affected, many are engulfed, many shaken from the place where they had clung like limpets to the rock, to be whirled about, hither and yon by the upheaval, never knowing when or where they shall be stayed. Sometimes the expected happens. In this beautiful high valley there was only one sign of it, only one visible token that this day was not as other days. It was a Sunday afternoon in midsummer, clear and hot. After weeks of icy showers, the weather had settled and only a few wisps of vapour clung to the heights, above which there hung the dazzling whiteness, the immutable frozen cloud of Mont Blanc. The blue of the sky above that again was the blue of the high Alpine passes. There was no wind. 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.