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Article ACCOUNT OF PENPARK-HOLE, ← Page 5 of 5 Article ON READING. Page 1 of 2 →
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Account Of Penpark-Hole,
p-mpark-Hble , and I will engage his curiosity will be fully gratified , as he will there see such dismal scenes as are scarcely to be paralleled , and of which the most lively imagination can form , at best , but a very faint idea . An ingenious person * , who has several times descended thiS " place in search of Mr . Newnam ' s body , twice made the tour of Europe , and
visited most of the remarkable caverns in this part of the globe , assured me , he had seen very few-mo ' re horrid and difficult tp explore than , that of Penpark-Hole-.
On Reading.
ON READING .
[ By Mr . AIKIN . j
AT the head of all the pleasures which offer themselves to the man of liberal education , may confidently be p laced that derived ' from books . In variety , durability , and facility of attainment , ho other- can stand in competition with it ; and even in intensity it is inferior to few . Imagine that we had it in our power to call up the shades , of the greatest and wisest men that eyei existed , and oblige them to
converse with us on the most interesting topics—what an inestimable , privilege should we think it!—how superior to all co ' min ' oh enjoyments ! But in a well furnished library we , in fact , possess" this power . We can question Xenophon and Ctesar on their campaigns , make Demosthenes and Cicero p lead before . us , join in the audiences of Socrates and Plato , and receive demonstrations from Euclid and Newton . In books we have the choicest thoughts of the ablest meti in their , best dress . We can at p leasure exclude dulness ' and impertinence , and open our doors to wit'Snd good sense ' alone . It is needless to repeat the '
high commendations that have been bestowed On the study of letters by persons , who had free , access to every other source of gratification . Instead of quoting Cicero to you , I shall in plain terms give you the-. result of my own experience on this subject . If domestic enjoyments have contributed in the first degree to the happiness of my life , ( andl should be ungrateful not to acknowledge that they have ) the pleasures of reading have beyond all question held the second place . Without
books I have never been able to pass a single day to my entire satisfaction : with them , no"day has been' so dark as not to have its pleasure . Even pain and sickness have for a time been charmed away by them . By the easy provision pf a book in my pocket , I have frequently worn through long nights and days in the most disagreeable parts of my profession , with all the difference of my feelings between calm content and fretful impatience . Such occurrences have afforded full proof both of the possibility of being cheaply pleased , and of the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Account Of Penpark-Hole,
p-mpark-Hble , and I will engage his curiosity will be fully gratified , as he will there see such dismal scenes as are scarcely to be paralleled , and of which the most lively imagination can form , at best , but a very faint idea . An ingenious person * , who has several times descended thiS " place in search of Mr . Newnam ' s body , twice made the tour of Europe , and
visited most of the remarkable caverns in this part of the globe , assured me , he had seen very few-mo ' re horrid and difficult tp explore than , that of Penpark-Hole-.
On Reading.
ON READING .
[ By Mr . AIKIN . j
AT the head of all the pleasures which offer themselves to the man of liberal education , may confidently be p laced that derived ' from books . In variety , durability , and facility of attainment , ho other- can stand in competition with it ; and even in intensity it is inferior to few . Imagine that we had it in our power to call up the shades , of the greatest and wisest men that eyei existed , and oblige them to
converse with us on the most interesting topics—what an inestimable , privilege should we think it!—how superior to all co ' min ' oh enjoyments ! But in a well furnished library we , in fact , possess" this power . We can question Xenophon and Ctesar on their campaigns , make Demosthenes and Cicero p lead before . us , join in the audiences of Socrates and Plato , and receive demonstrations from Euclid and Newton . In books we have the choicest thoughts of the ablest meti in their , best dress . We can at p leasure exclude dulness ' and impertinence , and open our doors to wit'Snd good sense ' alone . It is needless to repeat the '
high commendations that have been bestowed On the study of letters by persons , who had free , access to every other source of gratification . Instead of quoting Cicero to you , I shall in plain terms give you the-. result of my own experience on this subject . If domestic enjoyments have contributed in the first degree to the happiness of my life , ( andl should be ungrateful not to acknowledge that they have ) the pleasures of reading have beyond all question held the second place . Without
books I have never been able to pass a single day to my entire satisfaction : with them , no"day has been' so dark as not to have its pleasure . Even pain and sickness have for a time been charmed away by them . By the easy provision pf a book in my pocket , I have frequently worn through long nights and days in the most disagreeable parts of my profession , with all the difference of my feelings between calm content and fretful impatience . Such occurrences have afforded full proof both of the possibility of being cheaply pleased , and of the