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Excerpt from Confessions of a Converted Infidel: With Lights and Shades of Itinerant Life, and Miscellaneous Sketches The days of my childhood and youth were Spent in the ancient borough of newcastle-under lyme, in the county of Stafford, Old England. My mother was a pious member of the Church of England, and I was baptized by the Rev. Clement Leigh, the rec tor, when I was only six days old. One of the heaviest calamities that can befall a child came upon me in my fourth year. My mother sank into a pre mature grave, and left five children to the bufi'etings of a world of wickedness and woe. My father was an infidel, an admirer of Paine, Volney, Voltaire, and others of their class; and soon after my mother's death he became (oh, how I grieve when I write it) an intemperate man. Some of my earliest recollec tions with regard to this point are of the most pain ful character, and the scenes and incidents of my early days were such as even now to throw back their long shadows of gloom upon my spirit when. 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.