Excerpt from A Life's Assize What would you? We live in a place for years - that orderly, comfortable, respectable, orthodox life, which, being strictly correct, is also too frequently strictly unexciting; and whilst we are in the place we know the position of every shrub and tree, of every book and article of furniture, and yet, behold! We leave that pleasant orderly existence, and in'a Short time the map of our memory becomes blurred and indistinct. As wave swallows up wave, so one piece of order destroys the recol lection of another. It is only when the waves rear their heads and take away a portion of our lives from us, that we remember through the years the crested billows, and the wild waste Of waters amid which the ship of our hopes went down. 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.