Thoughts for the thoughtful - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1779 Excerpt: ...mankind, have so altered the world, that it is indeed other than it was. We used to take matters quietly, and move about more at our ease; but now, bustle is the order of the day in all things: whatever we do tiust be done by steam. Wherever we go, we nust go by rail-road; and there never was half the ballooning going forward as there is at the present time. Every one once thought that Chimborazo was the highest mountain in South America, and Dhawaligira, the loftiest in the world; but now it is found out that Sarato lifts up its head above Chimborazo, and that Chamoulari looks down on Dhawaligira. But while times, and manners, and customs, and opinions, are thus changing, we aged people should be aware that we are changing too. My limbs used to be more active than they are; aud my brow was once free from wrinkles. Whether I regard it or not, these grey hairs tell a tale to which I ought to listen. Have the years through which I have passed been many? the fewer, then, are those that remain to me, and the stronger the reason for my thinking less of seasons gone by, and more of those that are to come. Let me, then, amid the alterations of the times, and the sundry and manifold changes of the world, look to Him who changes not, and fix my heart where true joys are alone to be found. EDMUND HAWKER. I Hardly thought, at one time, that Edmund Hawker would outrun Old Humphrey; but it is even so, and he has got clear of the wilderness before me. I know that Edmund was a man of sorrows; but 1 know, too, that every sorrow was weighed out to him, even to the scruple, and that the hand of Him whose name is Love held up. the balances. People say that he was poor, and so he was ia this world's wealth, and thank God for it; for if poverty heaped upon him many cares, it ke...