Excerpt from Benoni BlakeBut what can there have been in a life like my friend's to move to admiration, to laugh at, or to deplore? Well, I fear there was nothing to tell which, now that I have told it in the book, can appear at all uncommon or remarkable. You may guess, however, that in his life there have been some elements of pleasure at most times, and, with greater certainty, you may con olude that there must have been some sorrows for him, as for us all. Of course, there was some youthful love-making, which, by rule, should have been a happy thing. To encourage you to read, I tell you that my friend almost made a sad affair of it.Religion, our great Scotch religion, is a power mighty and active among such Scotch people as I have had to write of.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.