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. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ...thing but his health: still amid all his studying, musings, and dreams, Your true friend and brother, H.K. WHITE. TO THE EDITOR. Nottingham July 9th, 1804. I Can now inform you, that I have reason to believe my way through college is clear before me. From what source I know not; but through the hands of Mr. ...
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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. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ...thing but his health: still amid all his studying, musings, and dreams, Your true friend and brother, H.K. WHITE. TO THE EDITOR. Nottingham July 9th, 1804. I Can now inform you, that I have reason to believe my way through college is clear before me. From what source I know not; but through the hands of Mr. Simeon I am provided with 30/. per annum; and while things go on so prosperously as they do now, I can command 20Z. or 301. more from my friends, and this, in all probability, until I take my degree. The friends to whom I allude are my mother and brother. My mother has, for these five years past, kept a boarding school in Nottingham: and, so long as her school continues in its present state, she can supply me with 151. or 20/. per annum, without inconvenience; but should she die (and her health is, I fear, but infirm), that resource will altogether fail. Still, I think, my prospect is so good as to preclude any anxiety on my part; and perhaps my income will be more than adequate to my wants, as I shall be a Sizar of St. John's, where the college emoluments are more than commonly large. In this situation of my affairs, you will perhaps agree with me in thinking that a subscription for a volume of poems will not be necessary; and, certainly, that measure is one which will be better avoided, if it may be. I have lately looked over what poems I have by me in manuscript, and find them more numerous than I expected; but many of them would perhaps be styled mopish and maukish, and even misanthropic, in the language of the world; though, from the latter sentiment, I am sure I can say, no one is more opposite than I am. These poems, therefore, will never see the light, as, from a teacher of that word which gives all strength to the feeble, more...
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