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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Biographical Sketch Falling in purple bloom, -free hearts that feel Their being doubled. In their country's weal. Among the influences which should be mentioned as having moulded the youth of Percival, is the simplicity of character and manners which was a marked feature of his native town. Fifty years ago, Connecticut had no towns larger than what would now be styled villages. The people were not rich, neither were they poor, or wholly illit erate. Practically democratic, they prided them selves in the peculiar designation which their small State had acquired, as the land of steady hab its, and were mostly independent, content, and happy, being to a great extent free from the evils which are engendered by a highly commercial state of society. Percival compared this to the pastoral state, and was highly delighted when, in later years, being employed as a geologist in New Bruns wick, he discovered the same style of life and man ners in a district which had been settled by a com pany of Loyalist emigrants from New England. 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.