The Man-at-Arms or, Henry De Cerons. Volumes I and II

The Man-at-Arms; or, Henry De Cerons. Volumes I and II

Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=7pcuAAAAYAAJ (Princeton University) 2. This volume includes Henry de Cerons Vol. I. and Vol. II.; and short stories entitled Eva St. Clair and Annie Deer. 3. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe]. It is difficult to discover what are the exact sources from which spring the thrilling feelings of joy and satisfaction with which we look back to the days of our early youth, and to the scenes in which our infancy was passed. It matters not, or at least very little, what are the pleasures to which we have addicted ourselves in after years, what are the delights that surround us, what are the enjoyments which Heaven has cast upon our lot. Whenever the mind, either as a voluntary act or from accidental associations, recalls, by the art of memory, the period of childhood, and the things which surrounded it, there comes over us a general gladdening sensation of pure and simple joys which we never taste again at any time of life. It must be, at least in part, that the delights of those days were framed in innocence and ignorance of evil, and that he who declared that of such as little children consisted the kingdom of heaven, has allotted to the babes of this world, in the brightness of their innocence, joys similar to those of the world beyond--joys that never cloy, and that leave no regret. What though some mortal tears will mix with those delights; what though the flesh must suffer, and the evil one will tempt; yet the allotted pleasures have a zest which not even novelty alone can give, and an imperishable purity in their nature which makes their remembrance sweeter than the fruition of other joys, and speaks their origin from heaven. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 50855
Author: James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
Release Date: Jan 6, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English