Download or read book Memoirs of My Own Times, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint) written by James Wilkinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of My Own Times, Vol. 2 of 3 Reviewing these scenes of injustice and inhumanity, Itetlee tbe philanthropist weeps over the frailties of man, and averting his eyes from the agitations and strife, the in ture of trigues and ambition, which menace the happiness of his £33; country, he places all his hopes in the culture of letters civic arts. And the civic arts, for the amelioration of the sad condi tion of his fellow-creatures; but it is in vain we expect to soften and amend the heart, by expanding the intellect unaccompanied bya sense of religious obligations; the arts and sciences enlarge the understanding and refine the taste, but they neither smooth asperities of temper, nor excite kindly propensities; indeed, by extending the sphere of our appetites and inclinations, without the sa lutary restraints of religion and morality, which are inseparable, if we may judge from practical life and living examples, they rather stimulate the lusts of the flesh, than chasten the afl'ections of nature. It will be seen in my own particular case, that in the 19th cen tury, I have been sacrificed to angry passions and um bitious intrigues; and that my uniform zeal in the public cause has been repaid by persecutions, which sprang up out of frivolous incidents, to which I was not a party, and unlocked for events, over which I had no cont-on! 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.