A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose (Classic Reprint) written by Charles MacKay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose The second fruit of friendship is health ful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the afl'ections; for friend ship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. 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.