Excerpt from The Loves and Marriages, Vol. 1 of 2: Of Some Eminent Persons What men do in middle life, remarked Dr. Arnold, without a wife and children to turn to, I cannot imagine; for I think the affections must be sadly checked and chilled, even in the best men, by their intercourse with people such as one usually finds them in the world. Happy in his own married life, Dr. Arnold could not understand a man being unmarried; and, speaking of children, he one day remarked, I do not wonder that it was thought a great ...
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Excerpt from The Loves and Marriages, Vol. 1 of 2: Of Some Eminent Persons What men do in middle life, remarked Dr. Arnold, without a wife and children to turn to, I cannot imagine; for I think the affections must be sadly checked and chilled, even in the best men, by their intercourse with people such as one usually finds them in the world. Happy in his own married life, Dr. Arnold could not understand a man being unmarried; and, speaking of children, he one day remarked, I do not wonder that it was thought a great misfortune to die childless in old times, when they had not fuller light; it seems so completely wiping a man out of existence. AS may be gathered from remarks of this kind, he was a thoroughly domestic man, and yet he never lost Sight of his friends. He was attached to his family, it was truly said of him by Archbishop Whately, as if he had no friends; to his friends as if he had no family; and, he adds, to his country as if he had no friends or relations. Debarred as he was from frequent intercourse with most of his friends by his varied occupations, he made it part of the regular business of his life to keep up a cor respondence with them. I never do, he said, and I trust I never Shall excuse myself for not writing to old and dear friends; for it is really a duty which it is mere indolence and thoughtlessness to neglect.4 loves and marriages OF eminent persons. 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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