Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes I most enjoyed tumbling about in was the same in which his infant gambols had first disturbed the repose of the books. I shall always remember a certain winter evening, when we boys were playing before the fire, how the Old man - gray, and gentle, and kindly -as any old German professor, and never complaining of our loudest gambols - going to the frost covered window, sketched with his pen-knife what seemed a cluster of brambles and a galaxy of glittering stars, and above that he wrote, Per aspen: aa' ash/a: 'through difficul ties to the stars.' He explained to us what it meant, and I have never forgotten that quiet win~ ter evening and the sweet talk of that Old man. 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.