Excerpt from Nocturnal Visit, Vol. 1: A Tale Previous to his becoming an inhabitant of Wye field he had mixed 9. Good deal in the busy world, and from what he had seen and suffered during his intercourse therein, he was happy to find him self far removed from it. Few men indeed had ever experienced greater deceit, cruelty, and ih gratitude, and independent of the disgust his ih juries naturally inspired him with against it, he deemed himself totally unqualified for it, from' wanting that patient merit, so necessary for the indigent and dependent to possess, in orderte enable them to bear, with some degree of calm ness, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's scorn, the insolence of office, and the various ills and indignities which the unworthy and un feeling are so apt to heap upon the children of adversity. 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.