Youth
“Heaven Lies About Us in Our Infancy”—The Great History Written by Thiers, and Its Central Thought—The Impressibility of Youth—Much Can Be Accomplished in Youth—Alexander, Cæsar, Pompey, Hannibal, Scipio, Napoleon, Charles XII, Alexander Hamilton, Shelley, Keats, Bryant—Youth Our Italy and Greece, full of Gods and Temples—Edmund Burke—Rochefoucauld —Chesterfield—Lord Lytton’s Love of Youth—Shortness of Youthful Griefs —Hannah More—Sir Walter Raleigh’s Wise Remark—The Extraordinary Expectations of Youth—Dr. Watts—Story of the Alpena—Lord Bacon’s Summing up of the Differences Between Youth and Age—Introduction to the Hard-Pan Series.