Author: A. Marsh

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-11-03

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9781334155154

Excerpt from The Ten Pleasures of Marriage, And, the Confession of the New Married Couple It has likewise many touches which show knowledge of the average fairly prosperous English life - the merchant's, the shopkeeper's, the sea-captain's. The author clearly knew the routine of trade. He knew that at New Year's Day the day-book had to be fully written up for scrutiny and stock-taking and sending out of accounts. (but the pleasures or torments of love are such that the squire is so full of business that he can't spare half an-hour to write it out. The brief description of his feelings which follows, conventional, perhaps, to some extent, has a certain life in it, as if the writer, embittered, was recalling his own youthful experience.) He knew, too, what to-day we only know in the mass through the newspapers, that a merchant's business depends not only upon watching the markets, but upon the actual supply of material what commodities are arrived or expected, and whether tea is up %d. Or tin %d. Down, or if hogs closed firm. The commercial world changes only its methods of communication and expression. 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.