Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ... Speak softly to him who toils by you with a heavy burden upon his shoulders, for his heart may be heavier; reproach not him who importunes you to buy--'tis an honest calling, and he may have need; but beware of "great reformers," "Indian doctors," "prodigies" and he who premises wonders. A man mounted upon a wagon loaded with merchandise, whistling " Yankee-doodle "--the man not the merchandise, mind you--will not be likely to do you an irreparable wrong, although like "JoeyJ3agstock," in " Dombey," he may be "dev-lishly sly." CHAPTER III. Wherein is developed something of human nature. Kath. Forward, Ipray, since we have come Bo far. And be it moon, or sun, or what you please: And if you please to call it a rush candle, Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me. Pet. I say, it is the moon. Kath. I know it is the moon. Pet. Nay, then you lie; it is the blessed sun. Kath. Then, God be blessed, it is the blessed sun: --But sun it is not, when you say it is not; And the moon changes, even in your mind. What you will have it named, even that it is; And so it shall be so, for Katharine. Taming of the Shrew. My hero whistled himself up the Connecticut and down the Merrimack--watered his horse at the, cracked his whip at the, sang "God save America" at Charlestown, and cheated old ladies woefully at Roxbury. He was a Methodist at Wesleytown, talked of " sins of omission and. commission," "christian perfections and sanctification"--sold a good sister a tin teapot for fifty cents. At Morry-place, he was a promising Universalist; spoke eloquently of "infinite love," "final restoration," the absurdities of the orthodox, and fhe many unfortunates who had been driven to suicide throtfgh a belief in endless, misery--sold a happy believer of the soft sex a...
