The Inspector. (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1753. Excerpt: ... The INSPECTOR. N. 78. ShtaHs populea matrens F hihmela sub umbra F/et uo3em, ramoque sedens miferabile carmen Integral, & maftis late loca qu stihus imp/et. Virgil. THERE is a pleasure in venting our sorrow, where all hope of relief is denied it: I take tins melancholy indulgence to have been the principal motive to the writing of the following letter, Though the remonstrances in it, however just, will, lam airaid, be of no service to the person who makes them, they may be of much use to the worlS: an example of distress, so undeservedly incurred, will, perhaps, go farther than all the precepts delivered by the moralists, toward warning that unhappy sex, v. hose best qualities are often the sources of their ruin, fiom exerting them in favour of those who intend to make no other use of them. To the Inspector. S I R, WITH what intent I should complain to you, I know not; yet there is a pleasure in complaining: why I should persecute with my remonstrances a man to whom I cannot wish to give pain, and whom I know it is impossible to recall to me, I am as much a stranger: but every tree bears its fruit, and tears are those of sorrow. My full heart would throw me at once into the midst of my complaints; but how can you feel them, unless you first know my story I am a woman: I am barely twenty; I am not handsome; nor do I know to what I should attribute it, that the most amiable, the most deserving of mankind condescended to cast his eyes upon me. As there was no motive that could throw him under the suspicion of being interested, I don't know whether I was more surprized or charmed with my good fortune. Deceit, so little have I of my sex, is not in my nature: I did not pretend to be blind to his perfections; I could not pretend to be an indifferent observer of them: I knew him gene...