The Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborne [Pseud.] on Several Subjects (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. 1769. Excerpt: ... namque Tu soleras Meas ejj'e aliqutd put are nugas Ca Tul, can she hope to find favor likewise in the sight of the public? Let me, then, rather content myself with the silent admiration of those virtues which I am not worthy to celebrate; and leave it to others to place the good works of Eusebes where they may Jlnneforth before men. I am, &c. LETTER LXXII. To the fame. Dec. 7, 1747. THE visits of a friend, like those of the fun at this season, are extremely enlivening. I am sure at least they would both be particularly acceptable to me at present, when my mind is as much overcast as the heavens. I hope, therefore, you will not drop the design your letter intimates, of spending a few days with me in your way to . Your company will greatly contribute to disperse those clouds of melancholy which the loss of a very valuable friend has hung hung over me. There is something, indeed, in the first moments of separation from those whom a daily commerce and long habitude of friendship has grafted upon the heart, that disorders our whole frame of thought, and discolors all one's enjoyments. Let Philosophy assist with the utmost of her vaunted strength, the mind cannot immediately recover the firmness of its posture, when those amicable props upon which it used to rest, are totally removed. Even the most indifferent objects with which we have long been familiar, take some kind of root in our hearts; and "I should hardly care" (as a celebrated author has, with great goodnature, observed) ' to have an old post ' pulled up, which I remembered ever since "I was a child," To know how to receive the full satisfaction of a present enjoyment, with a disposition prepared at the same time to yield it up without reluctance, is hardly, I doubr, reconcileable to humanity: pain i...