Knickerbocker Almanac For The Year Of Our Lord 1859

Author : Samuel Hart Wright
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282869670
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Knickerbocker Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord 1859 written by Samuel Hart Wright and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Knickerbocker Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord 1859: Being the Third After Bissextile, or Leap Year, and (Until July 4th) The 83rd Year of American Independence Powers, the sculptor, writing to a friend on what people call the folly of marrying Without the means to support a family, expresses frankly his own fears when he found himself in this very position, but he adds, with charac teristic candor: to tell the truth, however, famlly and poverty have done mo1e to support me than I have to support them. They have compelled me to make exertions that I hardly thought myself capable of; and often, when on the eve of despairing, they have forced me, like a coward in a corner, to fight like a hero, not for myself, but for my wife and little ones. The truth here expressed by the gifted sculptor, is like a similar 1emark we heard not long since, by a gentleman from Boston, who tried matrimony m the same way, and found afterward that the loose change in his pocket, which he had squandered in foolish notions, was enough to support a piudent wife, who, by well-regulated economy, has proved a fortune in herself, and had saved a snug sum of money for her once careless husband. A wife, to direct a man toward a proper ambition and to economy, he said, was like timely succor destruction on a perilous voyage. 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.