Punch's Letters to His Son (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Jerrold, Douglas William

9781330658130: Punch's Letters to His Son (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1330658132 ISBN 13: 9781330658130

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Punch's Letters to His Son

Three months, to a day, before the birth of my child, we had not for the previous eight-and-forty hours rejoiced our loyalty with the sight of his majesty's head even upon cop per; and yet - be Mercury my judge - we worked most gallantly - handed round the hat most perseveringly laughed most jocosely, - and all with bleeding hearts and a slow-hrs burning in our bowels. Nathless, halfpence came not. At that time, I remember, we were terribly run upon by Parliament. The madness of politics took away the people's brains; and literature, and art, and Punch, while the mania lasted, were - strange infatuation of men! Neglected for the House of Commons.

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Excerpt from Punch's Letters to His Son

My Lord,

Take my word for it, you have greater reason to be proud of this Dedication than of your wand of office. Having read it, you may, for the remainder of your official life, walk in the eyes of all men at least half an inch higher. As, however, persons in your exalted rank are not always inevitably promoted to the eminence by the invincibility of their reasoning powers, or the subtlety of their wit, it may, perhaps, be necessary for me to explain to you why, from this day forward, you should enjoy an increase of official altitude. Few things irk a man more, than to know he has inflicted the heaviest, yet withal the sweetest obligation on another, who nevertheless obstinately remains in the most Stygian ignorance of the fact.

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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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