Books with title The Story of the Peasant-Boy Philosopher: Or a Child Gathering Pebbles

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Excerpt from The Story of the Peasant-Boy Philosopher: Or a Child Gathering PebblesFerguson, makes no attempt at re-presenting eith er the circumstances or scenery amid which the Shepherd boy passed his youth. To have done this, would have been to have written a biography of the young astronomer, in which the character and incidents must have been literally followed. Such a work faithfully executed would doubtlessly have been sufficiently interesting and instructive, but it would have involved a more intimate know ledge With the facts of Ferguson's boyhood than the' materials left as could possibly have supplied. Moreover, the obj ect of the author. Was not so strictly to teach, as to create in youth a taste for learning - it was to appetize rather than to cram, - to excite a craving that would stir the young mind to seek its own food, instead of accustoming it to be, as it were, stall fed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Excerpt from The Story of the Peasant-Boy Philosopher: Or a Child Gathering PebblesFerguson, makes no attempt at re-presenting eith er the circumstances or scenery amid which the Shepherd boy passed his youth. To have done this, would have been to have written a biography of the young astronomer, in which the character and incidents must have been literally followed. Such a work faithfully executed would doubtlessly have been sufficiently interesting and instructive, but it would have involved a more intimate know ledge With the facts of Ferguson's boyhood than the' materials left as could possibly have supplied. Moreover, the obj ect of the author. Was not so strictly to teach, as to create in youth a taste for learning - it was to appetize rather than to cram, - to excite a craving that would stir the young mind to seek its own food, instead of accustoming it to be, as it were, stall fed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1855]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - English, Pages 533. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. COMPLETE LEATHER WILL COST YOU EXTRA US$ 25 APART FROM THE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. {FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE.}