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    Passages from a Relinquished Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
    Passages from a Relinquished Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
    Passages from a Relinquished Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
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    Passages from a Relinquished Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")

    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Passages from a Relinquished Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American writer whose work was aligned with the Romantic movement. Much of his output, primarily set in New England, was based on his anti-puritan views. He is a highly regarded writer of short stories, yet his best-known works are his novels, including The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of Seven Gables (1851), and The Marble Faun (1860). Much of his work features complex and strong female characters and offers deep psychological insights into human morality and social constraints.

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      Passages from a Relinquished Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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      Title: Passages from a Relinquished Work (From Mosses From An Old Manse)

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      MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE

      By Nathaniel Hawthorne

      PASSAGES FROM A RELINQUISHED WORK

      AT HOME

      From infancy I was under the guardianship of a village parson, who made me the subject of daily prayer and the sufferer of innumerable stripes, using no distinction, as to these marks of paternal love, between myself and his own three boys. The result, it must be owned, has been very different in their cases and mine, they being all respectable men and well settled in life; the eldest as the successor to his father's pulpit, the second as a physician, and the third as a partner in a wholesale shoe-store; while I, with better prospects than either of them, have run the course which this volume will describe. Yet there is room for doubt whether I should have been any better contented with such success as theirs than with my own misfortunes,—at least, till after my experience of the latter had made it too late for another trial.

      My guardian had a name of considerable eminence, and fitter for the place it occupies in ecclesiastical history than for so frivolous a page as mine. In his own vicinity, among the lighter part of his hearers, he was called Parson Thumpcushion, from the very forcible gestures with which he illustrated his doctrines. Certainly, if his powers as a preacher were to be estimated by the damage done to his pulpit-furniture, none of his living brethren, and but few dead ones, would have been worthy even to pronounce a benediction after him. Such pounding and expounding the moment he began to grow warm, such slapping with his open palm, thumping with his closed fist, and banging with the whole weight of the great Bible, convinced me that he held, in imagination, either the Old Nick or some Unitarian infidel at bay, and belabored

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