Salmagundi (contributor) (Notable American Authors) [Library Binding]

William Irving (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1807 | ISBN-10: 0781233429 | ISBN-13: 978-0781233422

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: riety of particulars concerning our own country, which we should never have discovered without their assistance. Influenced by such sentiments, I am delighted to find that the Cockloft family, among its other whimsical and monstrous productions, is about to be enriched with a genuine travel-writer. This is no less a personage than Mr. Jeremy Cockloft, the only son and darling pride of my cousin, Mr. Christopher Cockloft. I should have said Jeremy Cockloft, the younger, as he so styles himself, by way of distinguishing him from Il Signore Jeremy Cockloftico, a gouty old gentleman, who flourished about the time that Pliny the elder was smoked to death with the fire and brimstone of Vesuvius ; and whose travels, if he ever wrote any, are now lost for ever to the world. Jeremy is at present in his one-and-l wentieth year, and a young fellow of wonderful quick parts, if you will trust to the word of his father who having begotten him, should be the best judge of the matter. He is the oracle of the family, dictates to his sisters on every occasion, though they are some dozen or more years older than himself;—and never did son give mother better advice than Jeremy. As old Cockloft was determined his son should be both a scholar and a gentleman, he took great pains with his education, which was completed at our university, where he became exceedingly expert in quizzing his teachers and playing billiards. No student made better squibs and crackers to blow up the chymical professor; no one chalked more ludicrous caricatures on the walls of the college ; and none were more adroit in shaving pigs and climbing lightning rods. He moreover learned all the letters of the Greek alphabet; could demonstrate that water never ''of its own accord" rose above the level of its source, and that a...

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Product Details

• Library Binding
• Publisher: Reprint Services Corp (January 1807)
• ISBN-10: 0781233429
• ISBN-13: 978-0781233422
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds