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The Effect Of Sudden Preferment In Loosening Ancient Connexions.
shot up into a huge forest ; his shoulders and hands became ridges ; his head supplied the place of a pinnacle ; his bones were converted into rocks ; then his whole person swelled out to a monstrous size , ou which all the stars of heaven reposed . " Ouantus erat mons factns Atlas : jam barba coma-que fii silvas abeunt sunt bumeri mamisqiie
" , juga que ; " Ouod caput ante fuit , summo est in monte cacumen ; " Ossa lapis fiunt . Turn partes auctus in omnes " Crevit in immenstim ( sic DT , slatuistis ) , & omne " Cum tot sideribus ccelum requievit in illo . " Cicarella , in his life of Pope Sixtus Ouintus , tells us , that that Pontiff used frequently to lease himself with jesting upon the
meanp ness of his orioin . He would say , that he was domo uatus perillustri ; the cottage wherein he was born being so out of repair , that the sun shone through every part of it . Cicero , with more gravity , observes , Satins est meis gestis florere quam majoriim auctoriiaiibus inniti , G ? ita vivcre ut sim posteris meis nobilitatis indium G ? virtutis exemplum" It is more honourable for me to be dignified by
. my own actions , ' than to lean upon the authority of my ancestors ; and so to live , that ' I may be a fountain of nobility , and an example of virtue to my descendants , " . Our worthy Dean does not appear at present to feel all the force of these laudable sentiments ; but I depend upon his coming over to our party , at some period of his life . When old-age and sickness
press upon him , he will look around him , perhaps in vain , for his old friend Anthony Trueman , to refresh his mind with the pleasing recollections of his youth , and to talk with liim about young Jenny and the old tree . Yesterday , as I was pursuing- my reflexions on this subject , it occurred to me , that some good advice to such characters as I have been describing , mig ht be conveyed in the notion of a letter fnjrri a man ' s former self to his present selfj which mig ht run as follows :
" W ORSHIPFUL SIR , " Though perhaps you recollect , with no great cordiality or esteem , the person who now takes the liberty of addressing you , I feel so much interest in your honour and happiness , that I cannot refuse myself the satisfaction of laying before you some truths which } 'ott may turn greatly to account . "" I own , I cannot but complain bitterly of the " " contempt with which you treat a person born of as good
a fajn . ily as yourself , and bred to the same expectations , and one too whom you formerly loved better than your father or mother , and as much as your own life . " If I am rightly informed , sir , you have extended this illiberal conduct to my friends , and have represented Mr . Shortland as a person of mean condition , to whom , nevertheless , you are in a great measure obliged for your present elevation . As to myself , be assured , sir , your efforts to cast objivio . i and obscurity around me , will only niake . me the more noticed ; and th _( t , whatever comparisons . shall be
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Effect Of Sudden Preferment In Loosening Ancient Connexions.
shot up into a huge forest ; his shoulders and hands became ridges ; his head supplied the place of a pinnacle ; his bones were converted into rocks ; then his whole person swelled out to a monstrous size , ou which all the stars of heaven reposed . " Ouantus erat mons factns Atlas : jam barba coma-que fii silvas abeunt sunt bumeri mamisqiie
" , juga que ; " Ouod caput ante fuit , summo est in monte cacumen ; " Ossa lapis fiunt . Turn partes auctus in omnes " Crevit in immenstim ( sic DT , slatuistis ) , & omne " Cum tot sideribus ccelum requievit in illo . " Cicarella , in his life of Pope Sixtus Ouintus , tells us , that that Pontiff used frequently to lease himself with jesting upon the
meanp ness of his orioin . He would say , that he was domo uatus perillustri ; the cottage wherein he was born being so out of repair , that the sun shone through every part of it . Cicero , with more gravity , observes , Satins est meis gestis florere quam majoriim auctoriiaiibus inniti , G ? ita vivcre ut sim posteris meis nobilitatis indium G ? virtutis exemplum" It is more honourable for me to be dignified by
. my own actions , ' than to lean upon the authority of my ancestors ; and so to live , that ' I may be a fountain of nobility , and an example of virtue to my descendants , " . Our worthy Dean does not appear at present to feel all the force of these laudable sentiments ; but I depend upon his coming over to our party , at some period of his life . When old-age and sickness
press upon him , he will look around him , perhaps in vain , for his old friend Anthony Trueman , to refresh his mind with the pleasing recollections of his youth , and to talk with liim about young Jenny and the old tree . Yesterday , as I was pursuing- my reflexions on this subject , it occurred to me , that some good advice to such characters as I have been describing , mig ht be conveyed in the notion of a letter fnjrri a man ' s former self to his present selfj which mig ht run as follows :
" W ORSHIPFUL SIR , " Though perhaps you recollect , with no great cordiality or esteem , the person who now takes the liberty of addressing you , I feel so much interest in your honour and happiness , that I cannot refuse myself the satisfaction of laying before you some truths which } 'ott may turn greatly to account . "" I own , I cannot but complain bitterly of the " " contempt with which you treat a person born of as good
a fajn . ily as yourself , and bred to the same expectations , and one too whom you formerly loved better than your father or mother , and as much as your own life . " If I am rightly informed , sir , you have extended this illiberal conduct to my friends , and have represented Mr . Shortland as a person of mean condition , to whom , nevertheless , you are in a great measure obliged for your present elevation . As to myself , be assured , sir , your efforts to cast objivio . i and obscurity around me , will only niake . me the more noticed ; and th _( t , whatever comparisons . shall be