April 12, 2024
Life of John Kitto Complete two Volume Set 1857 ~ Very Rare Originals
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Life of John Kitto, D. D., F. S. A. by John Eadie Not illustrated.1857 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. VISIT TO PLYMOUTH--BIBLICAL AND LITERARY LABOURS SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC HABITS. After the Pictorial Bible was completed, Kitto and his family paid a friendly visit to Plymouth, and were received in a manner which must have been highly gratifying to him. How different his condition now from that in which he had visited his birth-place on his arrival from Malta! Then appearances, to say the least of it, were against him; now realities were for him. He had achieved celebrity; and every friend who had ever given him a kind word might greet him as a man of note, and claim an interest in his success. Many must have reversed their previous opinion, and perhaps affirmed that, after all, they had uniformly believed, and had indeed so predicted, that John Kitto would make a figure. Some of humbler rank might remember the deaf and ragged boy, who had devoured so many books; or the poor and pitied youth, who had drudged so contentedly in the workhouse. We wonder whether Mr. Bowden, whose tyranny had brought the smart youngster into notice, lived to see or hear of the editor of the Pictorial Bible. Kitto tells one friend that he often 'mused on his inner history, ' but his outer life also presented many topics of reflection. As, therefore, he walked through
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