This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ... iron; but I hope it is for my good. Such events are designed to convey very important lessons, Which, if they are properly attended to, must render one the wiser and better, and consequently in the fend, infallibly the happier. I am glad our friend Etnin * is returned ill safety. I cannot help wishing ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ... iron; but I hope it is for my good. Such events are designed to convey very important lessons, Which, if they are properly attended to, must render one the wiser and better, and consequently in the fend, infallibly the happier. I am glad our friend Etnin * is returned ill safety. I cannot help wishing him, if our own army is not a proper school, with Prince Ferdinand, who, if what the papers say of him be true, appears to be perfectly a Christian hero. The most sensible pleasure I have in the favorable reception given to Epictetus, is by considering it as a proof that people in general are pleased with a well-meant endeavour to promote the cause of Christianity f, and those who have never given themselves time to listen to better arguments, may be tempted, -by the influence of fashion, to consider these. I may be allowed too, I hope, to be agreeably affected by the good-natured pleasure which any little degree of reputation * For an account of this Armenian hero of romance, seo the Editor's Preface to the Letters between Mrs. Carter and Miss Talbot. He did afterwards serve under Prince Ferdinand. He died at Calcutta, in 1810. f For the manner in which Mrs. Carter attempted to carry this excellent design into execution, in her translation of Epictetus, the leader must be referred to her own admirable Preface to that work, and to the Letters between her and Miss Talbot, this this-work has met with, gives to my friends.- I more happy in the permission you give me to consider you in this number, than i have at prer ent spirits to tell you, and can only add the assurance of my being, with sincere esteem and affection, ... 1 Dear Madam, &c. P. S. Remember you are to write to me when you are got into the North, and I hope by...
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