Author: James Garland

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-19

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780484129558

Excerpt from Tregarthen Hall, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel Many of his sketches were purposely exag gerated, and therefore amusing; but, in the midst of laughter, again was the Opportunity seized to display the wisdom of the Creator in adapting every limb of these creatures to their several uses, and so perfect and complete was it that, although ages had passed away, it could be readily discerned that this - pointing to his picture of avariety of paws - was for digging, and that for climbing and clinging, and was the cor relative or type of the human hand; and when he further remarked that man could grasp in his hand a weapon which he had fashioned by his reason, and could hurl it 1n his self-defence, chiefly by the length, strength, free lateral mo tion, and perfect mobility of his thumb, the Doctor's drift became apparent, and he was loudly applauded. 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.