Excerpt from Garden Wisdom: Or From One Generation to Another Partly. This grows from circumstances of the time. Too many adventures have been our lot; and for many of us the youthful way of being has been too far pro longed. At the threshold of age. Just as we thought about stepping in to provide ourselves with overcoats and mufflers, we have had to turn to, pitch off our coats, and join in a promiscuous hustle where young and old were indistinguishable: called to duty, our numbers drawn, conscripted, whether by our ...
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Excerpt from Garden Wisdom: Or From One Generation to Another Partly. This grows from circumstances of the time. Too many adventures have been our lot; and for many of us the youthful way of being has been too far pro longed. At the threshold of age. Just as we thought about stepping in to provide ourselves with overcoats and mufflers, we have had to turn to, pitch off our coats, and join in a promiscuous hustle where young and old were indistinguishable: called to duty, our numbers drawn, conscripted, whether by our own decree or the law's does not matter, but any how conscripted for work which we had always thought as properly suited only to the young - and of them, only to one here and there. After all that, no doubt, there come queer reactions, a more than natural craving for repose. If this savour: of egoisrn - and who can deny it what is an essayist by profession and practice but an egoist, having at least this quality of frankness? Your novelist or playwright is an egoist in disguise, shal lowly accused (ii we may say it without blasphemy) by Plato as one who pretends to be what he is not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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