Life And Liberty In America Or Sketches Of A Tour In The United States And Canada In 1857 8 By Charles Mackay Lld Fsa In Two Volumes With Ten Illustrations

Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483256743
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Life and Liberty in America, Vol. 2 of 2 written by Charles Mackay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Liberty in America, Vol. 2 of 2: Or Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada, in 1857-8 Print, as some of our citizens might take it as per sonal. On another occasion an eminent lawyer, who had filled some of the highest Offices of the State, a man to whom ancient and modern literature were equally familiar, who had studied European as well as American politics, whose mind seemed to have run through the whole circle Of human knowledge, and who could converse eloquently on any subject, though while he spoke the tobacco-juice oozed out of the corners Of his mouth, and ran down upon his shirt-front and waistcoat, took a large cake of tobacco from his side-pocket, and courteously Offered me a chew. The cake, I should think, weighed about half a pound. I asked him if he had ever calculated how many gallons Of spit such a cake represented? Well, he said, putting the cake back again into his pocket, it is a disgusting habit. I quite agree with you. I have made several attempts to break myself of it, but in vain. I cannot think, or work, without a chew; and, although I know it injures my stomach, and is in other respects bad for me, I am the slave of the habit, and will, I fear, be so to the end of my Even in the presence of ladies, the chewers and Spitters do not relent and ladies seem almost, if not quite, as indifferent to the practice as the. 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.