Excerpt from Adam Brown, Vol. 2 of 3: The Merchant As the imagination has a larger grasp than the senses, there may be some truth in the dictum that the unknown always appears magnificent; but this position must be re stricted to a certain class of aggrandizing processes. When their curiosity is baf ed, people are apt to be rather indignant than magnifying, to make their ignorance an excuse for their ill-nature, and to pronounce all those impulses mean or unworthy which they cannot immediately and clearly fathom, - an ungenerous tendency which received abundant illustration in the case of Allan Latimer. High as his character stood, unexceptionable as had been his whole vol. II. B. 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."