Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments (Volume 4); Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: To thirft and hunger, pain and woe, To wounds, to death itfelf below; And he, that fuffer'd thefe alone For all the world, defpifes none. To bid the foul that's fick be clean To bring the loft to life again; To comfort thofe that grieve for ill, Is his peculiar goodnefs ftill And, as the thoughts of parents run Upon a dear and only fon, So kind a love his mercies fhow, So kind and more extremely fo. Thrice happy men, (or find a phrafe That fpeaks your blifs with greater praife) Who moft obedient to thy call, Leaving pleafure, leaving all, With heart, with foul, with ftrength incline, O fweeteft Jefu! to be thine. Who know thy will, obferve thy ways. And in thy fervice fpend their days: Ev'n death, that i'eems to fet them free, But brings them clofer ftill to thee. ANECDOTE ABOUT eleven years ago a fubaltern of the regiment of the Prince of Naflau Weilbourg, was impeached with a crime of great atrocity. He affrrted his innocence with a firmnefs and com- pofure which none but the guiltlefs can aflame: however a Court Martial was demanded, and after a fair and impartial trial, he was convitied, and condemned to fuffer death. He was two and twenty years of age, brave, fin- cere, engaging in his manners, and handfome in hisperfon; had lived beloved by his brother officers, and refpected by the whole corps. The regiment at this time lay at Nimeguen; all ranks were interefted in the fate of the young mjn, b:th on his own account, and that of his family. He had an only fifter, who loved him with all the ten- dernefs which the ties of confanguinity and the warmth of affcdior, peculiar to her age, could infpire. Diftracted with forrow on hearing the fatal news, the rufhed forth into the ftreets, her hair hanging loof...