The book Gleanings And Groupings From a Pastors Portfolio was written by author Joshua N Joshua Noble Danforth Here you can read free online of Gleanings And Groupings From a Pastors Portfolio book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Gleanings And Groupings From a Pastors Portfolio a good or bad book?
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He amused himself much with the peculiarities of the Scotch, which called forth frequent touches of the humor so natural to him. His fellow-students he amused with songs and stories. He loved the applause they awakened, and the roar of the convivial table at his jests and gibes, quips and cranks, THE GENIUS OF GOLDSMITH. 211 was music to his ears, as it was to those of Burns and Sheridan. Fatal music ! It could better have been spared. It is said that when in the progress of his fame he attaine...d the companionship of the politest cir cles, he could never entirely divest himself of that grimace and buffoonery which he practiced in the ge nial and habit-forming period of his youth. At Edin burgh he studied by fits, dissipated when he did not study, injured his health, drained his pockets, dam aged his mind, and did violence to his conscience. He concludes a random letter to a friend thus : " Fortune has given you circumstances, and nature a person, to look charming in the eyes of the fair.
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