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Memoirs Of The Late Colonel Frederick.
found also , some assistance in the compassion of the humane ; but oftentimes the } ' made a barbarous sport by insulting his misfortunes , and accompanying their benefits with abusive jests . Those who in his elevatioti admired him as a superior genius , born" with the happiest dispositions of body and mind , adorned with every science , formed by frequenting the greatest in
Europeconsumpersonages , mate in political , civil , and military affairs , in his misfortunes looked upon him as a man that had neither greatness of soul , nor sensibility of heart ; as one that was beholden for his elevation to the caprice of fortune , rather than to his own merit . The vulgar regard nothing but appearances ; they judge by the event only ; and -there are few in the world besides the vulgar .
' Theodore , at length , came out of prison by an act of insolvency , after having dragged on a most dismal life during seven years ; so that , being quite debilitated by the length and weight of his misfortunes , he died soon after , in extreme indigence ; disparaged , despised , discredited by all the world ; pitied and regretted by his son alone , die only admirer of his virtues and the fatal heir of his misfortunes .
His death happened on the jiih December , r 755 . ' We understand that Colonel Frederick had , for some time , estranged , himself from his family , merely because he could not bear to behold a distress he was wholly unable to relieve . We would through a veil over the act that ended his life , which , there is too much reason to believe , was the result of hopeless embarrassment , if not the effect of what lie deemed a philosophic resolution , derived from his favourite study of the Roman character .
New Oxford Guide: Or Humorous Supplement To All Former Accounts, Ofthat Ancient City And University.
NEW OXFORD GUIDE : OR HUMOROUS SUPPLEMENT TO ALL FORMER ACCOUNTS , OFTHAT ANCIENT CITY AND UNIVERSITY .
A NTIQUARIANS , in general , seem to have mistaken the ety-•* ¦*¦ moJogy of Bellositum , the reputed Roman name of the city of Oxford . The Rev . Mr . Pointer , in his manuscript notes on Rishanger , who flourished in the reign of Henry the Third , writes this word ' Bulositum , and derives it from the GreekjSoiAu , i . e . The city of Wis'
dom . This derivation 1 cannot entirely approve ; but must own , that it has suggested , a manner of spelling the word , which I take ' to be ' right , viz . Bullositum . —Mr . Hearne informs us , and indeed the common name Oxford implies the same , ' that the part of the river Isis , near the town , was the most considerable ford in England for the passage of oxen . ' And why not likewise for bulls ?—I readil y ab-ree
. with that judicious author , that Oxford is never written Ousefcrd , or Iseford , in the Saxon annals , or in William of Nevvburgh ; and that the adjacent parish of Binsey , where the principal ford is supposed
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Memoirs Of The Late Colonel Frederick.
found also , some assistance in the compassion of the humane ; but oftentimes the } ' made a barbarous sport by insulting his misfortunes , and accompanying their benefits with abusive jests . Those who in his elevatioti admired him as a superior genius , born" with the happiest dispositions of body and mind , adorned with every science , formed by frequenting the greatest in
Europeconsumpersonages , mate in political , civil , and military affairs , in his misfortunes looked upon him as a man that had neither greatness of soul , nor sensibility of heart ; as one that was beholden for his elevation to the caprice of fortune , rather than to his own merit . The vulgar regard nothing but appearances ; they judge by the event only ; and -there are few in the world besides the vulgar .
' Theodore , at length , came out of prison by an act of insolvency , after having dragged on a most dismal life during seven years ; so that , being quite debilitated by the length and weight of his misfortunes , he died soon after , in extreme indigence ; disparaged , despised , discredited by all the world ; pitied and regretted by his son alone , die only admirer of his virtues and the fatal heir of his misfortunes .
His death happened on the jiih December , r 755 . ' We understand that Colonel Frederick had , for some time , estranged , himself from his family , merely because he could not bear to behold a distress he was wholly unable to relieve . We would through a veil over the act that ended his life , which , there is too much reason to believe , was the result of hopeless embarrassment , if not the effect of what lie deemed a philosophic resolution , derived from his favourite study of the Roman character .
New Oxford Guide: Or Humorous Supplement To All Former Accounts, Ofthat Ancient City And University.
NEW OXFORD GUIDE : OR HUMOROUS SUPPLEMENT TO ALL FORMER ACCOUNTS , OFTHAT ANCIENT CITY AND UNIVERSITY .
A NTIQUARIANS , in general , seem to have mistaken the ety-•* ¦*¦ moJogy of Bellositum , the reputed Roman name of the city of Oxford . The Rev . Mr . Pointer , in his manuscript notes on Rishanger , who flourished in the reign of Henry the Third , writes this word ' Bulositum , and derives it from the GreekjSoiAu , i . e . The city of Wis'
dom . This derivation 1 cannot entirely approve ; but must own , that it has suggested , a manner of spelling the word , which I take ' to be ' right , viz . Bullositum . —Mr . Hearne informs us , and indeed the common name Oxford implies the same , ' that the part of the river Isis , near the town , was the most considerable ford in England for the passage of oxen . ' And why not likewise for bulls ?—I readil y ab-ree
. with that judicious author , that Oxford is never written Ousefcrd , or Iseford , in the Saxon annals , or in William of Nevvburgh ; and that the adjacent parish of Binsey , where the principal ford is supposed