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Excerpt from A Brief Historical Sketch of the Life and Sufferings of Leonard Trask: The Wonderful Invalid It is the opinion of many, that a certain fatality attends the life and actions of people, whereby the strange events of their lives are shaped, and to which, their success or defeat, their good or bad luck, their misfortunes or prosperity, are attributed. In the brief sketch which follows, it is not the object, to prove or disprove the correctness or fallacy of this idea, but to exemplify, how mysteriously the hand of Providence, sometimes, preserves the creature, man, when accident overtakes him, while, at other times, a seeming trifle - the smallest mishap, proves fatal, and happiness - all the enjoyments of life - and even life itself, are eventually destroyed, if not extinguished in a moment. Great and disastrous consequences, are sometimes, the result of seemingly small causes - while light catastrophies are the result of causes, appearing at first, momentous, the anticipated, horrid consequences of which, might seem unavoidable. 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.