PASSAGES OF A WORKING

LIFE

DURING HALF A CENTURY:

WITH

A Prelude of Early Reminiscences.

BY

CHARLES KNIGHT.

"There is a history in all men's lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd,
The which observ'd, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life, which in their seeds
And weak beginnings lie intreasured "

SHAKSPERE, Henry IV., PART. II.

LONDON:

BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.