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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. 1818 Excerpt: ...more philosophically on man, his nature, his real, his imaginary wants, the effects of his ambition, his passions, and saw more distinctly his dream of earthly good, than those who had imprisoned me, or those who guarded. I was void of the fears that hauut the parasite, who servilely wears the chains of a court, and daily trembles for the loss of what vice and cunning have acquired. Those who have usurped my Sclavonian estates, and feasted sumptuously from the service of plate I had been robbed of, never ate their dainties with so sweet an appetite as I my ammunition bread, nor did their high-flavoured wines flow so limpid as my cold water. Thus the man who thinks, being pure of heart, will find consolation when under the most dreadful of calamities, convinced, as he must be, that those apparently most are frequently least happy, insensible as they are of the pleasures they might enjoy. Evil never is so great as it appears. Sweet are the uses of adversity. Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in its head. At You Like It Happy he, who like me, having suffered, can become an example to his suffering brethren. YOUTH, prosperous, and imagining prosperity eternal, read my history attentively, though I should be in my grave! Read feelingly, and bless my sleeping dust, if it hath taught thee wisdom or fortitude. FATHER, reading this, say to thy children, I like them, in blooming youth, little prophesied of misfortune, which The Baron has quoted a poem written and published by himself. Im uebel selbst steckt noch ein dreiss. Wenn man shu nur zufinden weiss, The similarity of the thought, -which seems borrowed from 'Shakspeare, justifies a quotation so beautiful. after fell thus heavy on me, and by which...

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