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Such a mind is always an active and a versatile one; and few have equalled, none perhaps excelled, Wesley's industry and many-sidedness. For fifty years he rose at four in the morning. He read while he made his journeys on horseback - a dangerous practice, which cost him one or two serious accidents; and in the latter part of his life, when increasing infirmities obliged him to use a carriage, he read still more. Hence, during the seasons snatched by economical management of time out of the busiest of lives, he not only kept up the high acquirements in academical lore which he had made his own at Oxford, but mastered most of the modern lan guages, was well read in almost every science and every study to which he could get access, and kept thoroughly up with the lighter literature of the day - poetry, pam phlets, and works of fiction. The list of his revised editions of other men's books, of his epitomes, manuals. 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.
