Charles E. Bennett & William A. Hammond 
Characters of Theophrastus [PDF ebook] 
A Translation, With Introduction

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. To-day as he did when he first began shining; and the birds in the tree overhead, while I am writing, sing very much the same note they have sung ever since there were finches. There may be nothing new under and including the sun; but it looks fresh every morning, and we rise with it to toil, hope, scheme, laugh, struggle, love, suffer, until the night comes and quiet. And then will wake Morrow and the eyes that look on it; and so do capo. All this is very true; the changes which may be observed in human nature are small, and the old types of Theophrastus are all about us nowadays and really look and act much the same as they did to the eyes of the ancient Peri patetic. Offices and institutions have somewhat changed, and many char acter-types due to new vocations have come into being since then, e.g. The newsboy, the bishop, the.