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The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
sical allotment of it after their , death . In this , as in other particulars , Mr . Strahan ' s discretion and good sense were -apparent . Aftel providing munificently for his widow and children , his principal study seems to have been to mitigate the affliction of those ( and many there were ) who would more immediate ! } ' have felt his loss , by bequeathing them liberal annuities for their lives : aud ( recollecting that all of a profession are not equally provident ) he left ioool . to the Company of
Stationers , the interest to be divided in annuities of 5 I . each amongst infirm old printers ; of whom one half are to be natives of England or Wales , and the other half of North Britain . Endued with much natural sagacity , and an attentive observation of life , Mr . Strahan owed his rise to that station of opulence and respect which he attained , rather to his own talents and exertion ,
than to any accidental occurrence pf favourable or fortunate circumstances . ' His mind , though not deeply tinctured with learning , was riot uninformed b y letters . * From a habit of attention to style , he Ijad acquired a considerable portion of critical acuteness in the discernment of its beauties and defects . In one branch of writing he particularly excelled : this was the epistolary , iu which he not onl y shewed the precision and clearness of business , but possessed a neatness as well as fluency of expression which few letter-writers have been known to surpass * . Letter-writing was one of his favourite amuse-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
sical allotment of it after their , death . In this , as in other particulars , Mr . Strahan ' s discretion and good sense were -apparent . Aftel providing munificently for his widow and children , his principal study seems to have been to mitigate the affliction of those ( and many there were ) who would more immediate ! } ' have felt his loss , by bequeathing them liberal annuities for their lives : aud ( recollecting that all of a profession are not equally provident ) he left ioool . to the Company of
Stationers , the interest to be divided in annuities of 5 I . each amongst infirm old printers ; of whom one half are to be natives of England or Wales , and the other half of North Britain . Endued with much natural sagacity , and an attentive observation of life , Mr . Strahan owed his rise to that station of opulence and respect which he attained , rather to his own talents and exertion ,
than to any accidental occurrence pf favourable or fortunate circumstances . ' His mind , though not deeply tinctured with learning , was riot uninformed b y letters . * From a habit of attention to style , he Ijad acquired a considerable portion of critical acuteness in the discernment of its beauties and defects . In one branch of writing he particularly excelled : this was the epistolary , iu which he not onl y shewed the precision and clearness of business , but possessed a neatness as well as fluency of expression which few letter-writers have been known to surpass * . Letter-writing was one of his favourite amuse-