Excerpt from Incidents in My Life: Professional, Literary, Social, With Services in the Cause of Ireland It is a good plan on the part Of the reader to assume, on evidence of any restlessness or want Of clearness on the part Of the writer, that he is about to perpetrate a joke. It. Is well then to laugh heartily. Should the product prove only a mouse, as from a mountain in labor, or a false alarm, the writer will be none the worse, and the reader will get credit for possessing a sagacious mind. This may be an error in ...
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Excerpt from Incidents in My Life: Professional, Literary, Social, With Services in the Cause of Ireland It is a good plan on the part Of the reader to assume, on evidence of any restlessness or want Of clearness on the part Of the writer, that he is about to perpetrate a joke. It. Is well then to laugh heartily. Should the product prove only a mouse, as from a mountain in labor, or a false alarm, the writer will be none the worse, and the reader will get credit for possessing a sagacious mind. This may be an error in judgment, but it is well to take what you can get, especially when it has cost you nothing. Under all circumstances a good deal has to be taken on faith with the telling Of every story, and much has to be left to the imagination, where Often none exists. It is said that Napoleon lost the battle Of Water 100 in consequence Of dyspepsia, so that the battle proved no joke to him. The state Of the stomach does have much to do with the brightness Of every one, but the lack Of perceptibility as to the point Of the story is generally due to stupidity. 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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