Excerpt from Flattery, Liberty, and Friendship: Instructive and Entertaining Stories for Young PeopleSort - And therefore, I suppose, father, we call people that eat a great deal, and very fast, ravenous people.Burma - Just so: but this was not all I meant. I thought of people's propensity to do other things besides eating. They run as eagerly after the means of gratifying their favourite disa sitiou, be it What it may, as these birds fly Where: ever they are likely to find something to eat; and 'when they reach the things that have attracted them, they indulge their propensity quite as much.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.