Excerpt from Daily Thoughts From Phillips Brooks Personality, seemed to promise a long life to him if to any man. Every one, indeed, noticed dur ing his last visit to England that he looked much thinner than he had done two years before, but he always spoke of himself as perfectly well, and his great boyish heart seemed as full as ever of love and hope and joy I noticed in him a just perceptible deepening of gravity in tone, but no diminution of his usually bright spirits He resembled our common friend, the late Dean Stanley, in the fact that his genius had all the characteristics of the heart of childhood taken up and matured in the powers of manhood. I attributed the slightly less buoyant temperament of last summer - the sort of half - sadness which sometimes seemed to flit over his mind, like the. 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.