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. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... "In the weat of thy face shall thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground."--Genesis. "Let more work be laid upon the men that they labor therein."--Exodus. The prince cannot say to the merchant I have no need of thoe; nor the merchant to the laborer I have no need of thee."--Swift. "Sir, I am a true laborer. I earn that I eat; get that I wear; owe no man hate; envy no man's happiness."--Shakspbare. Anthony Aspenleaf and I studied law in the the same office. The students for a time familiarly called him Toney, but as he recoiled from the insignificant patronymic, delicacy prompted them to address him by the title of Mr. Aspenleaf, for they were gentlemen, and would not disturb the self-esteem of a very amiable though over-sensitive creature. At that time we made lawyers out of gentlemen--when will the time arrive that we can make gentlemen out of lawyers? Mr. Aspenleaf belonged to the order of society who mince their steps upon a Turkey carpet, fashion their countenances in gilded mirrors on pictured walls, --study their smiles, their bows and paces, until their shadow gives assurance of a man, and then they step forth, into the open air, daintily tread upon the bosom of mother earth, as if fearful that the raw material of which they are themselves composed may sully the science of the shoemaker. Mr. Aspenleaf had received a collegiate education; at least his father had paid divers sums of money to obtain a certificate from a learned institution that he was enabled to call himself--" dunce" in two dead languages, while the "profane vulgar" could pronounce him such only in the vernacular. Education had, in that particular, afforded him considerable advantage over the uninitiated. But Mr. Aspenleaf was no dunce. His mind...
