Excerpt from The Adventures of Henry Hudson
In presenting to the young volumes of Biogra phy, upon well-selected subjects, he hopes he is giving to his young Countrymen, the best practical examples for calling them up to a lofty energy. History is itself stranger than fiction, and Opens a wide and unlimited field of ever vary ing incident; and through books of Travels they learn to sit at home like the sweet poet Cowper, (as most of them, perhaps, will be forced to do, ) and see various pictures of the world. The men, manners, and things of real life thus be come familiar to them. It is to be hoped, and humbly expected, that a taste for such read ing, early acquired, will serve to make them, in after life, more profitable and interesting mem bers of society.
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