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. 1853 Excerpt: ...was deservedly esteemed by all who knew him. His life was one of almost uninterrupted tranquillity and enjoyment; and prompted by a desire to make all others equally happy, he strove to inculcate those principles which, from boyhood, he had fondly cherished. Nor can it be denied that, if his poetic talents had been ...
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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. 1853 Excerpt: ...was deservedly esteemed by all who knew him. His life was one of almost uninterrupted tranquillity and enjoyment; and prompted by a desire to make all others equally happy, he strove to inculcate those principles which, from boyhood, he had fondly cherished. Nor can it be denied that, if his poetic talents had been commensurate with the purity of his design, he would have shed a permanent lustre on his name and country. But to have done this would have been first to watch the operations of the human heart, under the influences to which man is exposed, in his multifarious dealings with the world. And surely to one intent on so great a purpose, the city would present stronger attractions than a mountainous and comparatively uninhabited district. Yet thither did he repair, in the heyday of life, to roam over trackless wilds, where his intercourse must have been restricted, for the most part, to such as lived in a condition little better than that of vassalage. There he found his fellow-being, under the galling yoke of servitude, depressed in spirit; and mistaking this depression for an evidence of virtue, inseparable from his pursuits, he acquired a belief that in rustic simplicity "the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature." No greater error could have befallen him. All history is agreed that man, in his primitive habit, is a barbarian. Such, indeed, had been the character of the people in the northern extremity of the kingdom, down to a period almost within the recollection of the living; for, according to Macaulay, "the magistrates of Northumberland and Cumberland were authorised to raise bands of armed men for the defence of property and order; and provision was made for meeting the expense of thes...
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