Gleanings At Seventy Five

Excerpt from Gleanings at Seventy-Five One who was accounted wise - was literary and scientific - said that when a man reached the age of seventy, his time for active usefulness was past, he should he laid on the shelf, (By the way, he did not act in accordance with that opinion, continuing his literary labors, &c., until many years past that age.) But if any agree with his early assertion, what will they think of one in her seventy-sixth year entering on an untried path? The reasons - a collection of articles from various sources was interesting to myself and my friends. The latter often urged their publication. For some I copied portions, but could not supply all, and at length I consented to glean from the whole a comparatively small number of articles for publication. When this was nearly accomplished came many requests to add some of the poetical pieces I had written long since, most of which were published in sundry periodicals about the time they are dated. 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.