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Article MEMOIRS OF THE LATE . DR. PAUL HIFFERNAN. ← Page 3 of 10 →
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Memoirs Of The Late . Dr. Paul Hiffernan.
reason to suppose , practised a rig id ceconomy . With this money lie emerged a little more into life , quitted the old English dress ( as he used to call his seedy clothes ) for a new suit of black , and knocked at the doors of his friends , with all the confidence of a successful author . In this progress our author sometimes felt I ' embarras du richesse , in a manner that was laughable enough . Dining one day at a friend ' s full he
house , and feeling the consequence and novelty of a pocket , wanted the change of a twenty-pound bank note ; the gentleman said he had not quite so much money in the house , but as his servantwas going on a message to Fleet-street after dinner , he should take it to Mr . Hoare , his banker , and bring him the change . This did very well , and soon after Hiffernan gave the note to the man for the above
purpose . . _ . So far the object of self-consequence and vanity were sufficiently displayed , and our Author joined in pushing about the bottle with great spirit and conviviality . After an hour or two spent in this manner , Hiffernan enquired after the man ; the bell was rung , but no man was as yet returned : he dropped his jaw a little upon this , but said nothing . about hour afterwards he enquired again—but no man . Here
In an our Author began to lose a little patience , and turning round to the gentleman of the house , very gravely . exclaimed , " By the living G— , I'm afraid your man has run off with the money . " " Upon my word , Doctor , " says the other , ( smoking him ) , " I must confess it has an odd appearance ; but if the fellow should have gone off , it is withjwr money , not mine . " "My money I" exclaimed Hiffernan , starting from to know that
his chair , and raising his voice , " Sir , I would have you I know law as well as you in this particular , and I know that if I gave my money to your servant by your direction , the act of the servant is the act of the master . " Here an altercation on the point of law , forborne time took place , when the Doctor was most happily extricated out of all his fears by the arrival of the servant with the money , and who was only prevented from returning in time , by a number of other messages
which he had to deliver from his mistress . ,. , , ,, , The next production of the Doctor ' s was a thing which he called " The Philosophic Whim , " , and which he ironically dedicated to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge . This is such a jumble of nonsense that there is no reading or denning it ; if it aims at any thing , it appears to be a laugh against some branches of modern philosophy , but so miserably executed as to drunk who wrote
warrant a supposition that the man must be mad or it . The publication , however , answered his purpose , for , as he was very heedless of his literary reputation , or , perhaps , did not always know when he was degrading it , he as usual subscribed it among his friends , and generally , wherever he went to dine , taxed his host from half-a-crown to a guinea ( just as he could get it ) for this pamphlet Hugh Kelly , who had previously seen it at a friend ' s house , generously sent him a guinea for a ' copy—but consoled himself at the same time , that he was under no obligation to read it . -
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Memoirs Of The Late . Dr. Paul Hiffernan.
reason to suppose , practised a rig id ceconomy . With this money lie emerged a little more into life , quitted the old English dress ( as he used to call his seedy clothes ) for a new suit of black , and knocked at the doors of his friends , with all the confidence of a successful author . In this progress our author sometimes felt I ' embarras du richesse , in a manner that was laughable enough . Dining one day at a friend ' s full he
house , and feeling the consequence and novelty of a pocket , wanted the change of a twenty-pound bank note ; the gentleman said he had not quite so much money in the house , but as his servantwas going on a message to Fleet-street after dinner , he should take it to Mr . Hoare , his banker , and bring him the change . This did very well , and soon after Hiffernan gave the note to the man for the above
purpose . . _ . So far the object of self-consequence and vanity were sufficiently displayed , and our Author joined in pushing about the bottle with great spirit and conviviality . After an hour or two spent in this manner , Hiffernan enquired after the man ; the bell was rung , but no man was as yet returned : he dropped his jaw a little upon this , but said nothing . about hour afterwards he enquired again—but no man . Here
In an our Author began to lose a little patience , and turning round to the gentleman of the house , very gravely . exclaimed , " By the living G— , I'm afraid your man has run off with the money . " " Upon my word , Doctor , " says the other , ( smoking him ) , " I must confess it has an odd appearance ; but if the fellow should have gone off , it is withjwr money , not mine . " "My money I" exclaimed Hiffernan , starting from to know that
his chair , and raising his voice , " Sir , I would have you I know law as well as you in this particular , and I know that if I gave my money to your servant by your direction , the act of the servant is the act of the master . " Here an altercation on the point of law , forborne time took place , when the Doctor was most happily extricated out of all his fears by the arrival of the servant with the money , and who was only prevented from returning in time , by a number of other messages
which he had to deliver from his mistress . ,. , , ,, , The next production of the Doctor ' s was a thing which he called " The Philosophic Whim , " , and which he ironically dedicated to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge . This is such a jumble of nonsense that there is no reading or denning it ; if it aims at any thing , it appears to be a laugh against some branches of modern philosophy , but so miserably executed as to drunk who wrote
warrant a supposition that the man must be mad or it . The publication , however , answered his purpose , for , as he was very heedless of his literary reputation , or , perhaps , did not always know when he was degrading it , he as usual subscribed it among his friends , and generally , wherever he went to dine , taxed his host from half-a-crown to a guinea ( just as he could get it ) for this pamphlet Hugh Kelly , who had previously seen it at a friend ' s house , generously sent him a guinea for a ' copy—but consoled himself at the same time , that he was under no obligation to read it . -