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Excerpt from Sargent's School Monthly, for Home and School Use, 1859, Vol. 1: Containing Original Dialogues; Pieces for Reading and Declamation; Choice Moral Stories; Studies in Biography, Natural History, Grammar, Etc.; Hints on Education; Gymnastics, Calisthenics, Etc
If we consider the romantic Spirit of the times, when the golden light of chivalry shone on every adventurous enterprise, we may imagine that the recital of the misery and oppression endured by pilgrims to the land of promise, and the solemn calls to the liberation of the holy sepulcher, and the repeated processions held with reference to that subject, may all have so worked on youthful imaginations, as that they should deem it practicable to execute a work which had fallen unaccomplished from the hands of princes and kings. 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.
