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Specimen Of An. Intended History Of England.
SPECIMEN OF AN . INTENDED HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
BY THE AUTHOR OF' A HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE ; REPRESENTING THE LIFE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS
SON OF WALDRON . NOW went forth the" spirit of plunder . The gigantic forms of depredation , which at this time subjected the persons , and ¦ pockets of the metropolis to the hands and hangers of the marauder , naturally rivets our attention to the loits of the son of Henrv
Walexp dron , in whom , under the wily alias of George Barrington , Idaik . y contemplate the hither of that species of clandestine rapine ; " which disjoins the inconveniencies of robbery from its terrors , and consist , in the insinuation of the finger or the hook into our personal cofTersi and recovering them triumphant with the spoils of the insensible benefactor . This furtive assessment upon property does not , on a first view
, appear worthy of the transcendant abilities of the free , hooter of Kildare -. but whatever underwent the touch of Midas beScamegold ; and the transmuting intellect of Barrington invested with system and ' wjth science an art which had hitherto been regarded , hythe more learned and more adventurous in the schools of Mercury , . with contemptuous indifference , and was by them consigned . to the noviciates of their lawless fraternity . Darting a keener glance into the occupation which was at once to dignify and to degrade his future day , this plunderer of the West was probably fired bv those verv
discouragements 'which would have depressed a Jess towering altitude of genius ; and discerned through the shades of ignominy ° n harvest of glory , in a proportion inverse to the fertility of the soifin which it was to be reared . . Armed with such confidence and such ambition , now walked forth the Adventurer of Ireland , sealing his ears to the syren solicltations of honourable
. more employs—spurned with unhallowed contempt the proffered patronage of the Pontiff of Leixlip , and the hope of histrionic eminence with which a successful appearance in the part of Jaffier had saluted his dawn . The metropolis of Hibernia . was the scene ofhis predatory exploits no longer than till the maturity of habit had succeeded to the crudities of unpractised timidity . The ri ofhis art
peness co-operating with a few instances of detection , sent him , fraught with presages of victory , against the capital of Albion ; find the year 1773 will be connected , through the lapse of ages , with the first appearance of the Son of Waldron on the shores ol" Britain . The giant capacities of genius are awake at those hours and in those Situations wherein minds of a plebeian mould resign themselves ' to the VOL . IV , " ¦ ' Ss " ' " '•' -
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Specimen Of An. Intended History Of England.
SPECIMEN OF AN . INTENDED HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
BY THE AUTHOR OF' A HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE ; REPRESENTING THE LIFE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS
SON OF WALDRON . NOW went forth the" spirit of plunder . The gigantic forms of depredation , which at this time subjected the persons , and ¦ pockets of the metropolis to the hands and hangers of the marauder , naturally rivets our attention to the loits of the son of Henrv
Walexp dron , in whom , under the wily alias of George Barrington , Idaik . y contemplate the hither of that species of clandestine rapine ; " which disjoins the inconveniencies of robbery from its terrors , and consist , in the insinuation of the finger or the hook into our personal cofTersi and recovering them triumphant with the spoils of the insensible benefactor . This furtive assessment upon property does not , on a first view
, appear worthy of the transcendant abilities of the free , hooter of Kildare -. but whatever underwent the touch of Midas beScamegold ; and the transmuting intellect of Barrington invested with system and ' wjth science an art which had hitherto been regarded , hythe more learned and more adventurous in the schools of Mercury , . with contemptuous indifference , and was by them consigned . to the noviciates of their lawless fraternity . Darting a keener glance into the occupation which was at once to dignify and to degrade his future day , this plunderer of the West was probably fired bv those verv
discouragements 'which would have depressed a Jess towering altitude of genius ; and discerned through the shades of ignominy ° n harvest of glory , in a proportion inverse to the fertility of the soifin which it was to be reared . . Armed with such confidence and such ambition , now walked forth the Adventurer of Ireland , sealing his ears to the syren solicltations of honourable
. more employs—spurned with unhallowed contempt the proffered patronage of the Pontiff of Leixlip , and the hope of histrionic eminence with which a successful appearance in the part of Jaffier had saluted his dawn . The metropolis of Hibernia . was the scene ofhis predatory exploits no longer than till the maturity of habit had succeeded to the crudities of unpractised timidity . The ri ofhis art
peness co-operating with a few instances of detection , sent him , fraught with presages of victory , against the capital of Albion ; find the year 1773 will be connected , through the lapse of ages , with the first appearance of the Son of Waldron on the shores ol" Britain . The giant capacities of genius are awake at those hours and in those Situations wherein minds of a plebeian mould resign themselves ' to the VOL . IV , " ¦ ' Ss " ' " '•' -