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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. INTERVAL AT BUEY. . AFTER leaving Colchester at midsummer, 1795, I remained at Bury till April in the next year. During this time I had serious thoughts of being called to the bar; it was I believe Mr. Buck who put this into my head. He had always a good opinion of me. My vivacity in conversation pleased him, and others like him entertained the very false notion that the gift of words is the main requisite for a barrister, ? a vulgar error, which the marvellous success of such men. as Erskino and Garrow had encouraged. I was invited to meet Mr. Capcl Lofft at dinner, that I might have the benefit of his opinion. Ho was against my being called. My acquaintance in general ? among others not yet named, Walter Wright ? concurred in this view, and the effect was that I neglected being entered a member of an Inn of Court; nevertheless I was averse to being an attorney, for which I was as little qualified as to be a barrister. I determined, however, to read lav/ and occupy myself as well as I could, living meanwhile with the utmost economy. With youth, health, high spirits, and, alternating with a very low opinion of myself, a vanity which vao gratified by perceiving that I could readily make my way in society, I was able to lead a busy idle life. In me was verified the streniia inertia of Horace. And in society I verified a line of the French Horace, as his countrymen term him, ? Un sot trouve toujonrs un plus sot qui 1'admire. I was now, as it were, entering society, and before I relate the few incidents of the year, I will review the more remarkable of the persons I then knew. The most noticeable person I had ever been, in company with was Capel Lofft, ? a gentleman of good family and estate. ? an author on an infinity of subjects; his books were on La...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson (Volume 1). To get started finding Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson (Volume 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2012

ISBN: 1459075218

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. INTERVAL AT BUEY. . AFTER leaving Colchester at midsummer, 1795, I remained at Bury till April in the next year. During this time I had serious thoughts of being called to the bar; it was I believe Mr. Buck who put this into my head. He had always a good opinion of me. My vivacity in conversation pleased him, and others like him entertained the very false notion that the gift of words is the main requisite for a barrister, ? a vulgar error, which the marvellous success of such men. as Erskino and Garrow had encouraged. I was invited to meet Mr. Capcl Lofft at dinner, that I might have the benefit of his opinion. Ho was against my being called. My acquaintance in general ? among others not yet named, Walter Wright ? concurred in this view, and the effect was that I neglected being entered a member of an Inn of Court; nevertheless I was averse to being an attorney, for which I was as little qualified as to be a barrister. I determined, however, to read lav/ and occupy myself as well as I could, living meanwhile with the utmost economy. With youth, health, high spirits, and, alternating with a very low opinion of myself, a vanity which vao gratified by perceiving that I could readily make my way in society, I was able to lead a busy idle life. In me was verified the streniia inertia of Horace. And in society I verified a line of the French Horace, as his countrymen term him, ? Un sot trouve toujonrs un plus sot qui 1'admire. I was now, as it were, entering society, and before I relate the few incidents of the year, I will review the more remarkable of the persons I then knew. The most noticeable person I had ever been, in company with was Capel Lofft, ? a gentleman of good family and estate. ? an author on an infinity of subjects; his books were on La...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson (Volume 1). To get started finding Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson (Volume 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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