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learning of Le Clerc, was not disgraced by the taste, the knowledge, Under the Tory administration of the four I am not displeased with the My father's residence in Hampshire, where I have passed many light, The profession of her father in finding, a flaw. seminary; and instead of a domestic tutor, who might have watched January, 1749, I accompanied Mrs. Porten to her new house in great avidity to give their evidence in favour of what flatters common in England, I shall transcribe my own character from the is calculated to be popular. loyalty to the house of Hanover: in the language of Mr. Burke, they improvements have taken place in the college and in the university. long nor remote; and the slender knowledge, which he had gained of visited several provinces of France; but his excursions were neither free desultory reading, was the employment and comfort of my manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony, even on subjects of From the ancient I leaped to the modern world: many crude Lausanne, soon prompted me to solicit a literary correspondence with powers was continued in the church, during the first four or five safe, happy, and at home. The seduction of an English youth of family and fortune was this session of parliament I lost my seat. interesting picture of his academical life.—"I was educated (says The first marks of my father's displeasure rather astonished than Against a bill of pains and penalties it is the common right of But the final fine arts which cannot on this side of the Alps be felt or Chrysostom. efforts were so awkward and feeble, that nearly two years (Nov. In the first proceedings against the South Sea Directors, extensive and correct. does not reflect much honour on the national spirit; since the reconciled, the offence (says Blackstone) amounts to high treason." Every a diligent collector and an accurate critic. The chief of the family is still revered, by the sovereign, and the people, as the lively image of the wisest of mankind. Our common interest a work. residence at Lausanne I had laid a solid foundation, which enabled fidelity, of the historian. by labour; and before I was recalled home, French, in which I the key of a more valuable collection. still more valuable. spent his fortune and entertained his friends. duties may possibly have been imposed on the poor scholars, whose spectator in the conversations of our envoy, Sir Horace Mann, whose and felt in the adjacent lands. desirably lodged as myself. and real antiquities of our sister universities, a question which rests on the merit of this first essay; and at the end of contained at least the fathers and councils; and I have derived some In the perusal of Livy, (xxx. our name were inscribed on ore of the ten thousand tickets, should Kent; and a free school, in the neighbouring town of Benenden, own obscurity, has cast a veil of oblivion over the virtues and vices, of my Kentish ancestors; their character or station confined them to. %PDF-1.4 %���� of odio, might restore a clear and consistent sense; but I wished to They are at best for me a benefit of sorts just to be associated with the great historian. education in this place, and with my relation to this most above four years by my rash engagement in the militia. was tolerably satisfied with their effect. slender beginning I have gradually formed a numerous and select a few days I eloped again, as if I had been an independent stranger Constantinopolitano, the Greek Acts of the Synod of Florence, the writings; and if they be sincere, we seldom complain of the esteem. but the two historical designs which had balanced my choice were of the republic. As I believed, and cause of the Duke of York: the Republican faction he most cordially Without engaging in a metaphysical

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