The Carisbrooke Libary (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889. Excerpt: ... AN ESSAY ON PROJECTS. OF PROJECTORS. TVyf AN is the worst of all God's creatures to shift for himself. -No other animal is ever starved to death. Nature without has provided them both food and clothes, and Nature within has placed an instinct that never fails to direct them to proper means for a supply; but man must either work or starve, slave or die. He has indeed reason given him to direct him, and few who follow the dictates of that reason come to such unhappy exigencies; but when, by the errors of a man's youth, he has reduced himself to such a degree of distress as to be absolutely without three things, money, friends, and health, he dies in a ditch, or in some worse place--an hospital. Ten thousand ways there are to bring a man to this, and but very few to bring him out again. Death is the universal deliverer, and therefore some who want courage to bear what they see before them hang themselves for fear; for certainly self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. Others break the bounds of laws to satisfy that general law of Nature, and turn open thieves, housebreakers, highwaymen, clippers, coiners, &c, till they run the length of the gallows, and get a deliverance the nearest way at St. Tyburn. Others, being masters of more cunning than their neighbours, turn their thoughts to private methods of trick and cheat, a modern way of thieving, every jot as criminal, and in some degree worse than the other, by which honest men are gulled with fair pretences to part from their money, and then left to take their course with the author, who skulks behind the curtain of a protection, or in the Mint or Friars, and bids defiance as well to honesty as the law. Others, yet urged by the same necessity, turn their thoughts to honest inventio...