Download or read book Works of J Fenimore Cooper Vol 4 of 10 written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Works of J. Fenimore Cooper, Vol. 4 of 10: The Sea Lion; Afloat and Ashore; The Water Witch; Illustrated With Wood-Engraving If anything connected with the hardness of the human heart could surprise us, it surely would be the indifference with which men live on, engrossed by their worldly objects, amid the sublime natural phenomena that so eloquently and unceasingly speak to their imaginations, affections, and judgments. So completely is the existence of the individual concentrated in self, and so regardless does he get to be of all without that contracted circle, that it does not probably happen to one man in ten that hid thoughts are drawn aside from this intense study of his own immediate wants, wishes, and plants, even once in the twenty-four hours, to contemplate the majesty, mercy, truth, and justice of the Divine Being that has set him, as an atom, amid the myriads of the hosts of heaven and earth. The physical marvels of the universe produce little more reflection than the profoundest moral truths. A million of eyes shall pass over the firmament on a cloudless night, and not a hundred minds shall be filled with a proper sense of the power of the dread Being that created all that is there - not a hundred hearts glow with the adoration that such an appeal to the senses and understanding ought naturally to produce. This indifference in a great measure, comes of familiarity; the things that we so constantly have before us becoming as a part of the air we breathe, and as little regarded. One of the consequences of this disposition to disregards the Almighty Hand, as it is so plainly visible in all around us, is that of substituting our own powers its stead. In this period of the world, in enlightened countries, and in the absence of direct idoltary, few men are so hardy as to deny the existence and might of a Supreme Being; but, this fact admitted, how few really feel that profound reverence for Him that the nature of our relations justly demands! It is the want of a due sense of humility, and a sad misconception of what we are, and for what we are created, that misleads us in the due estimate of our own insignificance, as compared with the majesty of God. Very few men attain enough of human knowledge to be fully aware how much remains to be learned, and of that which they never can hope to acquire. We hear a great deal of god-like minds, and of the far-reaching faculties we possess; and it many all be worthy of our eulogiums, until we compare ourselves in these, as in other particulars, with Him who produced them. Then, indeed, the utter insignificance of our means becomes too apparent to admit of a cavil. We know that we are born, and that we die; science has been able to grapple with all the phenomena of these two great physical facts, with the exception of the most materials of all - those which should tell us what is life, and what is death. Something that we cannot comprehend lies at the root of every distinct division of natural phenomena. Thus far shalt thou go and no farther, seems to be imprinted on every great fact of creation. There is a point attained in each and all of our acquisitions, where a mystery that no human mind can scan takes the place of demonstration and conjecture. This point may lie more remote with some intellects than with others; but it exists for all, arrests the inductions of all, conceals all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
Download or read book Works of J Fenimore Cooper Vol 4 Of 10 written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Works of J. Fenimore Cooper, Vol. 4 of 10: The Sea Lions; Afloat and Ashore; The Water Witch Although it has actually more sea-coast than all the rest of New York united, Suf folk has but one seaport that is ever men tioned beyond the limits of the county itself. Nor is this port one of general commerce, its shipping being principally employed in the hardy and manly occupa tion of whaling. As a whaling town, Sag Harbor is the third or fourth port in the country, and maintains something like that rank in importance. A whaling haven is nothing without a. Whaling com munity. Without the last it is almost hopeless to look for success. New York can, and has often fitted whalers for sea, having sought officers in the regular whaling ports; but it has been seldom that the enterprises have been rewarded with such returns as to induce a second voyage by the same parties. 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.
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Download or read book The Works of James Fenimore Cooper Volume 10 written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book The Works of James Fenimore Cooper Volume 10 written by Cooper James Fenimore 1789-1851 and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Works of J Fenimore Cooper Vol 9 of 10 written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Works of J. Fenimore Cooper, Vol. 9 of 10: The Ways of the Hour; Wing and Wing; The Wept of the Wish-Ton-Wish; Precaution As all toasts ought to be. If we are to have this dinner, and the speeches, and all the usual publications afterward, I choose that we should appear with some little credit. Pray, sir, raising his eyes to his uncle, and his voice to correspond, what do you think of it, now? 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.
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Download or read book Works of J Fenimore Cooper Vol 6 of 10 written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Works of J. Fenimore Cooper, Vol. 6 of 10: Home as Found, the Chainbearers, the Redskins Those who have done us the favor to read Homeward Bound will at once perceive that the incidents of this book commence at the point where those of the work just mentioned ceased. We are fully aware of the disadvantage of divid ing the interest of a tale in this manner 3 but in the present instance, the separa tion has been produced by circumstances over which the writer had very little con trol. As any one who may happen to take up this volume will very soon dis cover that there is other matter which it is necessary to know, it may be as well to tell all such persons, in the commence ment, therefore, that their reading will be bootless, unless they have leisure to turn to the pages of Homeward Bound for their cue. 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.
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Download or read book Works of J Fenimore Cooper Vol 5 of 10 written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Works of J. Fenimore Cooper, Vol. 5 of 10: The Crater, Miles Wallingford, Homeward Bound; Illustrated With Wood-Engravings The faithful, and once lovely partner of this principal personage of our history is also dead. It would seem that it was not intended they should be long asunder. But their time was come, and they might almost be said to have departed in com pany. The same is true of 'friends Robert and Martha, who have also filled their time, and gone hence, it is 'to be hoped, to a better world. Some few of the younger persons of our drama still exist, but it has been remarked of them, that they avoid conversing of the events of their younger days. Youth is the season of hope, and hope disappointed has little to induce us to dwell on its de ceptive pictures. If those who now live in this republic can see any grounds for a timely warning in the events here recorded, it may hap pen that the mercy of a divine Creator may still preserve that which he has hitherto cherished and protected. 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.
Download or read book Works of J Fenimore Cooper Vol 5 of 10 written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Works of J. Fenimore Cooper, Vol. 5 of 10: The Crater; Miles Wallingford; Homeward Bound We believe that, in some countries, a woman's name is not properly considered to be changed by marriage, but she be comes a Mrs. Only in connection with the name of her husband. Thus Jane Smith. Becomes Mrs. John Jones, but not Mrs. Jane Jones. It is on this idea we suppose that our ancestors the English - every Englishman, as a matter of course, being every American's ancestor - thus it is, we suppose, therefore, that our ancestors, who pay so much more attention to such matters than we do ourselves, in their table of courtesy, call the wife of Lord John Russell, Lady John, and not Lady - whatever her Christian name may hap pen to be. We suppose, moreover, it is on this principle that Mrs. General This, Mrs. Dr. That, and Mrs. Senator T'other, are as inaccurate as they are notoriously vulgar. 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.
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Download or read book Works of J Fenimore Cooper Vol 3 of 10 written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Works of J. Fenimore Cooper, Vol. 3 of 10: The Pilot, the Red Rover, the Two Admirals; Illustrated With Wood-Engravings So very discouraging did these ominous opinions get to be, that the writer was, once or twice, tempted to throw his manu script aside and turn to something new. A favorable opinion, however, coming from a very unexpected quarter, put a new face on the matter, and raised new hopes. Among the intimate friends of the writer was an Englishman who possessed most of the peculiar qualities of the edu cated of his country. He was learned even, had a taste that was so just as always to command respect, but was prejudiced, and particularly so in all that related to this country and its literature. He could never be persuaded to admire Bryant's water-fowl, and this mainly because if it were accepted as good poetry it must be placed at once among the finest fugitive pieces of the language. Of the Thanatopsis he thought better, though inclined to suspect it of plagiarism. To the tender mercies of this one-sided critic, who had never affected to compliment the previous works of the author, the sheets of a volume of The Pilot were committed, with scarce an expectation of his liking them. The reverse proved to be the case - he expressed himself highly gratified, Thus encouraged, one more experiment was made, a seaman being selected for the critic. A kinsman, a namesake, and an old messmate of the author, one now in command on a foreign station, was chosen, and a considerable portion of the first volume was read to him. There is no wish to conceal the satisfaction with which the effect on this listener was observed. He treated the whole matter as fact, and his criticisms were strictly professional and perfectly just. But the interest he betrayed could not be mistaken. It gave a perfect and most gratifying assurance that the work would be more likely to find favor with nautical men than with any other class of readers. The Pilot could scarcely be a favorite with females. The story has little inter est for them, nor was it much heeded by the author of the book in the progress of his labors. His aim was to illustrate ves sels and the ocean, rather than to draw any pictures of sentiment and love. In this last respect the book has small claims on the reader's attention, though it is hoped that the story has sufficient interest to relieve the more strictly nautical feat ures of the work. 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.
Download or read book Works of J Fenimore Cooper Vol 7 of 10 written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Works of J. Fenimore Cooper, Vol. 7 of 10: Wyandotte; The Monikins; Jack Tier The abuse of the grants, as land became more valuable, induced a law, restricting the number of acres patented to any one person, at any one time, to a thousand. Our monarchial predecessors had the same facilities, and it may be added, the same propensities, to rendering a law a dead letter, as belongs to our republican selves. The patent on our table, being for a nomi nal hundred thousand acres, contains the names of one hundred different grantees, while three several parchment documents at its side, each signed by thirty-three of these very persons, vest the legal estate in the first named, for whose sole benefit the whole concession was made the dates of the last instruments succeeding, by one or two days, that of the royal patent itself. 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.
