Author: James Ferguson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-25

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780666370273

Excerpt from The British Essayists, Vol. 1 of 40: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical, and Critical Nothing is perhaps so difficult as to find out business proper for the idle; and, though it may appear paradoxical, yet I believe none have so much need Of it as they. The man who is professionally employed, in whatever department, goes on in the track which habit has marked out for him, at peace with his own thoughts and the world but he whom every passing moment reproaches with doing noth ing, must often fly for relief to very useless or very unworthy occupations. He will Often be dissipated without amusement, and intemperate without pleas ure, merely because dissipation is preferable to vacancy, and intemperance to listlessness. 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.