Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Samuel Parr, LL.D. (Volume 1) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1829 Excerpt: ... CHAP. III. From 1786 to 1790. What Dr. Parr's immediate motive was for resigning the school at Norwich, I do not find. In August 1785 he formally sent in his resignation, and went to reside at Hatton at Easter 1786. Whether the charms of a country life had fascinated his imagination, or whether his spirits wanted repose and retirement, from the noise and bustle of a public school, it is clear that he was not easy, and his letters to the Rev. H. Homer open to us some of the fancies which he then indulged. At Norwich, in a letter to Walter Pollard, Esq. of Furnival's Inn, he exposes with the greatest confidence, many of his private feelings and anxieties, and doubts about securing a moderate competency. Pollard had been his scholar at Stanmore, but was obliged to flee from England, and borrowed money from him in his embarrassments. Parr calls him a very acute, learned, and wrong-headed man. The following observations were extorted from For a minute account of Pollard, see Memoirs of the Author of Indian Antiquities, part 1. pp. 62--82, &c. Parr by Pollard's representation of his own distresses. Dear Sir, March 29th, 1782. Most sincerely do I lament the difficulties with which you have struggled, and most warmly do I applaud the fortitude with which you have sustained them. Let me beseech you, dear Sir, not to confound omission with neglect, nor to charge upon coldness towards your interest, or indifference about your friendship, a silence that was really the result of other causes. The fluctuating state of my body between health and sickness, and even between life and death, has produced a general relaxation of that activity with which I had been accustomed to attend to the affairs of my friends. You desire my confidence; and I therefore add, that the little...