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Excerpt from The Poor Man's Sabbath, and Other Poems These extended views, however, which, in a dis sertation on the Sabbath, would a brd matter of curious and edifying inquiry, or in a poem, embracing the subject in general, might be made the ground work of much fanciful and pathetic description, do not fall within the design of the followmg poem, which did not extend farther than to point out a few of the most obvious of its effects upon the child of penury and toil. Nor, perhaps, can the Sabbath be viewed in any more interesting aspect. To him whose daily employment is rather mental than corporeal, though, if he be a man of piety, it brings a blessed relief in changing the subjects of contemplation, from the objects of time and sense, that are seen and perishing, to the glories of Emmanuel, which, though for the present unseen, are eternal, yet it breaks in but little upon the uniform tenor of his life; while to him whose every day is ease and recreation, it must be a day of self-denial, and, instead of adding externally to his comforts, must have an air of monkish severity, or at least of unsocial reserve. 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."