Excerpt from The London Christian Instructor, or Congregational Magazine, Vol. 7: For the Year 1824 Tm: year is completed! How con aiderable a portion of human life! How replete to many of your readers in painful and instructive events! How full of'admonition, generally, on the vicissitudes of the world, the brevity of our existence, and the various occupations in which the years of men are passing away! Perhaps it may not be un seasonable to attempt some im provement of time past, by calling upon difi'erent classes of characters h) retrace the course they have thus far run. 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.

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