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The Effect Of Sudden Preferment In Loosening Ancient Connexions.
justified in keeping no measures with such a character , I authorise you to insert the following list in one of your periodical essays , if ' you think it worth your notice . Dec . 25 , 1778 . Being Christmas-da }' , lent to Tom Varnish a clean shirt and a sermon for the occasion . Jan .- 3 . A crown for a Christmas-box to Jeruy
. — 31 . Corrected a declamation for him , by making a new one . March 1 . Lent him a pair of worsted gloves , during the hard frost . April 4 . Paid Mr . Gangrene for the setting of his collar-bone ; also his forfeits to the Free-and-easy Club . June 32 . Paid two-thirds of the expence of Jenny ' s misfortune
. Aug . 28 . Saved him from drowning , in a scheme down the river to Flenley . Oct . 6 . Lent him a pair of boots , a whip , and a shilling for the turnpikes , besides paying for his horse , to enable him to ride over to his uncle the cow-doctor , who lay ill of a drops } -.
March 3 , 1779 . Puffed him off to SirH . O'N . by whose interest he went with tlie Lord-lieutenant to Ireland . July 15 . Made up a quarrel about potatoes , which took place at the moment of his landing . Aug , 7 . Saved him from a challenge from the Rev . Dr . Patrick O'Bryan , by proving that he had no meaning in any he saici
thing , . ° A multitude of little services-have escaped my' recollection ; but these will be sufficient to shew , that the Dean of has clean forgotten Tom Varnish , and Tom Varnish ' s friends . Be so good as to .-make a memorandum of this letter ; and if I perceive any future changes in this self-tormentor , I will not fail to give you soma farther accounts of him . Yours ever , ANTHONY TRUEMAN . " °
I thought there was so much honesty and good sense in this letter , that I determined to make a present of it to my readers ; and though the catalogue which my friend Trueman has sent me , may seem to bear rather too hard upon the Reverend Dean , yet a pride of this sort does so eminentl y misbecome a teacher of Christianity , and betrays such a corruption of heart , that I cannot think the punishment
improper either in kind or degree . . For my part , with my sedate habits , and sober complexion , these frightful transformations of my countrymen surprise me strangely . For as , in my own family , whole generations have exactl y agreed , and the father has regularly reproduced himself in the son , I ' am the more astonished to see a man so much at variance with himself . There must certainly have been some witchcraft in ' Tom Varnish ' s history , which puts me very much in mind of the poet ' -s account of the metamorphosis of Atlas into a mountain ; his beard and hair
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Effect Of Sudden Preferment In Loosening Ancient Connexions.
justified in keeping no measures with such a character , I authorise you to insert the following list in one of your periodical essays , if ' you think it worth your notice . Dec . 25 , 1778 . Being Christmas-da }' , lent to Tom Varnish a clean shirt and a sermon for the occasion . Jan .- 3 . A crown for a Christmas-box to Jeruy
. — 31 . Corrected a declamation for him , by making a new one . March 1 . Lent him a pair of worsted gloves , during the hard frost . April 4 . Paid Mr . Gangrene for the setting of his collar-bone ; also his forfeits to the Free-and-easy Club . June 32 . Paid two-thirds of the expence of Jenny ' s misfortune
. Aug . 28 . Saved him from drowning , in a scheme down the river to Flenley . Oct . 6 . Lent him a pair of boots , a whip , and a shilling for the turnpikes , besides paying for his horse , to enable him to ride over to his uncle the cow-doctor , who lay ill of a drops } -.
March 3 , 1779 . Puffed him off to SirH . O'N . by whose interest he went with tlie Lord-lieutenant to Ireland . July 15 . Made up a quarrel about potatoes , which took place at the moment of his landing . Aug , 7 . Saved him from a challenge from the Rev . Dr . Patrick O'Bryan , by proving that he had no meaning in any he saici
thing , . ° A multitude of little services-have escaped my' recollection ; but these will be sufficient to shew , that the Dean of has clean forgotten Tom Varnish , and Tom Varnish ' s friends . Be so good as to .-make a memorandum of this letter ; and if I perceive any future changes in this self-tormentor , I will not fail to give you soma farther accounts of him . Yours ever , ANTHONY TRUEMAN . " °
I thought there was so much honesty and good sense in this letter , that I determined to make a present of it to my readers ; and though the catalogue which my friend Trueman has sent me , may seem to bear rather too hard upon the Reverend Dean , yet a pride of this sort does so eminentl y misbecome a teacher of Christianity , and betrays such a corruption of heart , that I cannot think the punishment
improper either in kind or degree . . For my part , with my sedate habits , and sober complexion , these frightful transformations of my countrymen surprise me strangely . For as , in my own family , whole generations have exactl y agreed , and the father has regularly reproduced himself in the son , I ' am the more astonished to see a man so much at variance with himself . There must certainly have been some witchcraft in ' Tom Varnish ' s history , which puts me very much in mind of the poet ' -s account of the metamorphosis of Atlas into a mountain ; his beard and hair