This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...back ground, and there mid the mingling melodies of the songsters that haunt such a " sylvan scene," let him turn over the pages of this delightful biography. He will then be in a mood rightly to conceive and appreciate the character of Wilson. He was no ordinary man; and if genius alone can truly delineate genius, no ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...back ground, and there mid the mingling melodies of the songsters that haunt such a " sylvan scene," let him turn over the pages of this delightful biography. He will then be in a mood rightly to conceive and appreciate the character of Wilson. He was no ordinary man; and if genius alone can truly delineate genius, no common man may presume to write his history. To say then that Mr. Peabody has succeeded in his difficult attempt, is no mean praise. He has not indeed added much that is new to our knowledge of the history and character of Wilson. The biography of Mr. Ord, prefixed to the American Ornithology, made up as it is for the most part of copious reflections from the letters and journals of Wilson, gives us perhaps as complete and interesting a view of the man and the ornithologist, as it is possible to give. Mr. Peabody, like a faithful and industrious bee, has gathered the honey from this wild mass of flowers, and served it up for us in a new, clear and beautiful comb. It is indeed " sweet as the honey-comb," and we are grateful for his industrious toil. But the flowers themselves are beautiful and fragrant, and possess a thousand charms and odors, which no art can extract, no alchemy condense; and if we regret any thing in this charming sketch, it is the loss of Wilson's own beautifully descriptive letters. For the place, however, which it occupies in the American Biography, Mr. Peabody's life is perhaps better as it is, and will be an acceptable offering to the lovers of fine writing and taste. We make room for the following particulars in the life of Wilson. He was born in Paisley, in Scotland, on the 6th of July, 1766. His parentage was humble, but honorable; his parents being Scotch peasants, and distinguished for the prover...
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Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo; Covers detached, edges worn, paper age toned but not brittle, a little foxing. Last page, Funds received by American Education Society, missing. Sabin #1198. Size: 8vo. 368 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 pounds or less. Category: Religion & Theology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.
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Vol. IV, Nos. 2-4. Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1832. viii, pp 73-36. With: Sixteenth Annual Report of the Directors of the American Educational Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting, Held in the City of New York, May, 1832. Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1832. 60pp. With: Nineteenth Annual Report of the Directors of the American Educational Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting, Held in the City of Boston, May, 1835; with the Constitution & Rules of the Society. Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1835. 96pp. 9x6'', cloth spine, paper boards. Cover rubbed, text foxed, else VG.
