Excerpt from The Thackeray Pocket Book ND had that further education which neither books nor years will give, but which some men get from the silent teachings of adversity. She is a great school-mistress, as many a poor fellow knows, that hath held his hand out to her ferrule, and whimpered over his lesson before her awful chair.-esmond, chap. Iv, bk. Ii. 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.