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Excerpt from The Confessions of an Elderly Lady I have but one consolation for the degeneracy of the age, and that consists in the conviction that few records of it will descend to posterity. People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it. The present race seem tothink only of the actual minute. They are prodigals, who give no thought to their predecessors, and no care to their suc cessers. People were not thus heartless in my youthful days - but everything is changed! The magazines, too how they are fallen off No longer do two interesting looking heads, ycleped, A téta-d or The fair deceiver and the enamoured Philander, meet the gaze, initiating one into some recent morceau of amusing scandal. No - the portrait of some would-be-beauty, or modern author, stares one in the face, endeavouring to look handsome, or clever, with all her or his might; but as it is not often that artists succeed in bestowing either of these expressions on their subjects, they are frequently as unkindly treated by art as by nature. 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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Excerpt from The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman: Illustrated by Six Female Portraits, From Highly Finished Drawings by E. T. Parris I returned to England after many long and weary years of absence, rather worse in health than when I left it; as the incursions made on my already debilitated constitution, bv undue heat, unlooked for winds, and unwholesome diet, instead of retarding, tended to advance, the effects of that cruel enemy, Time. Wine too sour to admit of its copious use, food too insipid to induce even a gourmand, much less an epi cure, to commit an' excess, enforce the adoption of temperance on those who are the most opposed to it; and this virtue, so seldom practised at home. 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.