Excerpt from Past, Present, and Future, Vol. 1 of 2In life, as in nature, there is much occasional dulness and prosiness - the rains and the fogs of life - many an nu happy moment, like the storms and the tempests sometimes great prosperity, like the gleams of sunshine - and these things falling on particular dispositions or characters make stories or romance partially, severally, but not continually no two persons ever feeling or acting alike under given circumstances, which may be the reason, and entirely account for, why there is so little sympathy in human nature,-as this same prosiness, dulness, unhappiness, or prosperity, acts on what the great orators and preachers call the.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.