Journeys through Bookland - a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922) (14757372176)

Identifier: journeysthroughb06sylv (find matches)
Title: Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: Chicago : Bellows-Reeve
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
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his classmates, unlike himself, knew alittle of the language. He was scarcely more suc-cessful in a private course in mathematics, but didwell in his classes in moral philosophy. History andcivil and municipal law completed his list of studies.So meager did this education seem that in later yearsScott wrote in a brief autobiography, If, however,it should ever fall to the lot of youth to peruse thesepages—let such a reader remember that it is withthe deepest regret that I recollect in my manhoodthe opportunities of learning which I neglected inmy youth: that through every part of my literarycareer I have felt pinched and hampered by my ownignorance: and that I would at this moment givehalf the reputation I have had the good fortune toacquire, if by doing so I could rest the remainingpart upon a sound foundation of learning andscience. It had been decided that Walter should followhis fathers profession, that of the law, and accord-ingly he entered his fathers office, to serve a five 4
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Sir Walter Scott 31 years apprenticeship. Though it may seem sur-prising, in view of his former indolence, it is truethat he gave himself to his work with great industry.At the same time, however, he continued to readstories of adventure and history and other similarworks with as much zest as ever, and entered intoan agreement with a friend whereby each was toentertain the other with original romances. Themonotony of office duties was also relieved by manytrips about the country, in which the keenest delightwas felt in natural beauties and in the historicalassociations of old ruins and battlefields and otherplaces of like interest. Then, too, there were lit-erary societies that advanced the young law-ap-prentice both intellectually and socially. Thus theyears with his father passed. Then, as he was toprepare himself for admission to the bar, he enteredlaw classes in the University of Edinburgh, withthe result that in 1792 he was admitted into theFaculty of Advocates. The first years o