Essays In A Series Of Letters By John Foster

Author : John Foster
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ISBN 13 : 9781330000724
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Essays in a Series of Letters written by John Foster and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays in a Series of Letters John Foster, the celebrated essayist, was born on the 17th September, 1770, in a small farmhouse in the parish of Halifax, between Wainsgate and Hebden Bridge. His parents were John and Ann Foster, a worthy couple, who in addition to the labours of the farm devoted part of their time to weaving. John was an old-fashioned child. Before reaching his twelfth year he had, to quote his own words, "a painful sense of an awkward but entire individuality." His early antipathies were strong, and his imagination intensely vivid. He was soon set to work to aid his parents in weaving, and till his fourteenth year worked at spinning wool to a thread by the hand-wheel. While thus employed, however, he "had no idea of being permanently engaged in handicraft;" he was ambitious, and secretly indulged in romantic dreams for the future. At the age just named he entered into the service of a master manufacturer, but his inveterate habit of mental abstraction led him constantly to live in an ideal world, and as his weaving in consequence was often executed in a slovenly and unworkmanlike style his employer was dissatisfied, and discharged him from the service. 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.