The Sporting Magazine Or Monthly Calendar Of The Transactions Of The Turf The Chase And Every Other Diversion Interesting To The Man Of Pleasure Enterprise And Spirit 1805 Classic Reprint

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ISBN 13 : 9780666686824
Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book The Sporting Magazine, Or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase, and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprise, and Spirit written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sporting Magazine, or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase, and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprise, and Spirit: For October, 1805 Being discharged from the hos pital, the boy was recommended to' a shoe-maker, one of those wretch es, too numerous in the metropolis, who take in poor children, to en slave and starve, under the notion of apprenticeship. On theapprentice' being rather too loud in his com-v plamts, the ungentle son of Crispin hound him fast to a post, gave him a decent number of lashes with his strap, and atterwards, in derision, offered him wetted wax for his dino' ner. Our little hero, acting up to the dignity of his character, scorned to repme or expostulate, but took the effectual remedy of a Speedy ref treat, for ever forswearing the last, and determined rather to go barefoot all his life. Than learn to make shoes. Unluckily for him, it hap pened that, of the few offers which' presented of regular livelihood; he was found or supposed incapable from the loss of his, leg Thus, with a mind by no means naturally vicious, and even of considerable purity, if that may be estimated by the nature of his education, was' this poor lad 'driven, like many thousand others, to these irregular shifts tor a subsistence: under the numberless pressures of which 8 strict regularity of conduct is scarce-i ly to' he expected, if not absolutely imposmble. 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.