The Key of the Forth: Or, Historical Sketches of the Island of May, Interspersed with a Variety of Curious Scenes on the East Coast of Fife (Classic Reprint)

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IN the spacious theatre of rational existence, the ever-varying drama of life, with all its gorgeous scenery, appears teeming with incessant revola tion, interspersed with alternate sunshine and shade, and chequered, in all its exhibitions, with interminable vicissitude. The favourite pursuits that engross the attention, engage the affections, and incite all the faculties of the busy actors on the whirling stage, are as diversified in their nature and character as are the dispositions, inclinations, and predilections that rule in the intellectual empire; and each pursuit, however trivial or important, rational or romantic, is actuated by a peculiar impulse, governed by a distinctive aim, and consummated in a definite purpose. Nor is the sphere of action, the arena of human enterprise, restricted to the narrow limits of man's visual horizon, or circumscribed within the precincts of an island, an ocean, or a continent, but comprehends the immeasurable.

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