Life and Letters of Mr. Endymion Porter

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Excerpt from Life and Letters of Mr. Endymion Porter: Sometime Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Charles the First At first it is not easy for us to realise this solidarity of humanity, we think that gaily embroidered doublets and shining armour must have covered hearts as unlike our own as the quaint raiment was unlike our modern clothes. We think that the men who made long-winded speeches, who listened with delight to interminable sermons, who breakfasted and dined at unheard - Of hours, without any of the appliances which seem to us almost absolute necessaries of life, that these cannot possibly have been men like ourselves. It is true that it would be folly for us to seek sympathy or companionship among the prehistoric hunters of the Stone Age, or even among our own ancestral Jutes and Angles. But when we turn to social and civilised man, and can learn to forget mere draperies and accessories, there comes a delightful day when we become suddenly conscious that we. 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.