Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1799 edition. Excerpt: ... Neweome, on the ss. and to the generality of the various readings amafled by l ennicott? 2. Critics, by their feverity, infeft authors, as the African ants do the Negroes; but like them anfwer one good purpofe, by deftroying all the carrion. cudworth. His Collections for the remaining part of his Intellectual Syftcm, and Daniel's Weeks, in 3 vols. folio, after many adventures and mutilations, were lodged in the Britifh Mufcum.--See an account of this matter in Crit. Review for May 1783, p. 391. Sold by Lord Mafham, pillaged by Dodd as Locke's, and thrown into a garret by Davis. The fate of pofihumons writings is treated by Johnfon in one of his papers; whence he deduces an argument for a man's working up hrs materials, and pnblifhing them himfelf; not colleSing in infinitum, and then leaving thofe collections to be employed by the eook of his executor in fingeing a goofe. death. 1. There is something very affecting in the words fpoken by the gallant Sir Philip Sidney to his brother, juft before his death, occafioned by a wound received in battle--" Love my memory, cherifh my friends; "but, above all, govern your will and affections by the "will and word of the Creator; in me beholding the "end of this world, with all her vanities." 1. Saint Aldegonde, a proteftant in the Low Coun.-..-, -.., 6 tries, tries, when imprifoned under the Duke of Alva, tells us, that "for three months together he recommended "himielf-to God every night, as if that would be his "laft; the Duke having twice ordered him to be put "to death in prifon."--Ought not every man to do this, as no man can be certain he fhall awake on the morrdxv?--Gen. Diet. 3. In the journey of life, as in other journies, it is a pleafing reflection, that we have friends who are..."
