Excerpt from The Quarterly Journal of Education, Vol. 4: July-October, 1832 Thus prepared he came at length, with the first burst of his freedom, from the darkness of his seven years' servitude to the light of the great metropolis: and well, indeed, was it for him if, before this migration, and as he grew up to man's estate in ignorance and idleness, he had not become converted into a vain as well as an uninformed person, or had not gained some village notoriety for habits nearly bordering on vice. 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.