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Excerpt from The History of Sir Richard Calmady, Vol. 1: A Romance
From all of which it may be premised that when, like the wise king, of old, in Jerusalem, Denzil Calmady builded him houses, made him gardens and orchards, and planted trees in them of all kind of fruits, When he made him pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringe forth trees, when he gathered silver and gold, and the treasure of pro vinces, and got him singers, and players of musical instriiments, and the delights of the sons of men, - he did so that, having tried and sifted all these things, he might, by the exercise of a ripe and untrammelled judgment, decide what amongst them Is illusory and but a passing show, and what - be it never so small a remnant - has in it the promise of eternal subsistence, and therefore of vital worth; and that, having so decided and thus gained an even mind, he might prepare serenely to take leave of the life he had dared so largely to live. 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.
