Excerpt from The Adventures of Don Sylvio De Rosalva Born In 1733 at Biberach, a free corporation town Of Swabia, he was the son of a Lutheran minister a learned man, who undertook the entire charge of his education, and with parental zeal pushed him on so fast that at seven he was able to read Nepos with enjoyment, and at thirteen made pocket companions of Virgil and Horace. This unwise stimulation Of the mental facul ties had the usual effect Oi giving him a distaste for the healthy recreations of boyhood he grew shy, and fond of solitary musing, unfit for competition with his equals, and inclined by his father's religious discipline to morbid habits of self-analysis, and, it may be added, of self deception. His frequent tears of contrition, his out bursts Oi religiosity, were not insincere they were the transient emotions of an impressionable soul, and by no means implied any deep and lasting conviction. 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.