Download or read book The Favourite of Nature, Vol. 2 of 3 written by Mary Ann Kelty and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Favourite of Nature, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale I believe I can never be in danger of thinking myself superior to Mortimer. His education has of course given him the decided and proper advantage over me in literary attainments. In points of taste we do not much differ, except that he has not. That elevated idea of the delicacy and beauty of the pleasures resulting from the imagination which I have Constituting, as they do, in my mind, the principal charm and ornament of exist ence. This, howeve', I am conv1nced, arises less 'from 'want of feeling, than from a habit of austere self-denial, which he thinks it right and proper to en courage. 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.