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the weakness of its friends , or by the maligni y of its enemies . Like yonder sun in the firmament , it shall burst upon , he astonished soul , in all that attractive etrulgence , wuh which Clou hath ori ginally invested if . Its nature its evidences , its tendency , will bt clearly understood , and thorousjhlv felt ' shooting its beams into the remotest i egiens of the globe- P " ' ' Memoir * of the present Countess of Derby ( late Miss Parren ) including Anecdotes
, of several distinguished Persons . B y Petronius Arbiter , Esq . fta . Paves 27 . is . 6 d . Symonds . ' & THIS is one of the most scandalous publications-that has disgraced the English press for a long time . Under the pretence of fidelity , it Reports rh * most atrocious falsehoods , and endeavours to render a person ridiculous who has long stood most deservedl y high in the public esteem both for her aclishments and her virtues
comp . The Testimony of Truth lo exalted Merit : or a Biographical Sketch of the Right Hon . the Countess oj Derby ; in Refutation tf a false and scandalous Libel . With an engraved Portrait . $ to . zs . Fine Edition . . Cawthorn . THTS elegant and spirited performance evidentl y proceeds from no ordinary , pen . It may be pronounced an animated panegyric on the amiable Countess the production of a writer well acquainted with his subject . ' The particulars given of her LtfcbMip are not many , ' but thev are snffir- ; P > f .
, to refute the calumnies with which the public has been insulted in the tract to which it is an answer . Speaking of the penury of Miss Farren ' s early days , when she was left with several other orphans , and a widowed mother , without any sort of dependence , and which Circumstance has been sarcasticall y dwelt upon by c » rtain writers , our author has the following pathetic and serious remarks . / The reader of sensibility , will enter feelingly into the situation of this affiled familthus of their onl
y , deprived y earthly deoendence . H » will not contribute his smile of approbation to the pen of Slander , which d' -ops expressions ofmsnlting triumph on the picture of domestic misery , which exposes the habitation of sorrow to the sneer of the scorner , the envious , and the proud ' « It is not necessary that the truth should- be disguised , —it is far fro ' m being dishonourable to any person of exalted rank , that though title and affluence now surround him , he or his ancestors once dwelt In a cott-ire Innumerable arethe instances which miht be
g produced , of the most illustrious characters having issued from the most lowl y and obscure situations . One shall be alledgedas pertinent and amusing . It is of no less a man than Sixtus the Fifth , Pope of Rome , who used to sport upon the meanness of his own origin inthe most brilliant companies , saying punningly , that he was domi nains iliusin , ' born of an illustrious house , ' which he explained b y describing b ' ; father ' s cottage , through the roof and broken walls of which the solar " ravs had free access . ' ' *
Having conducted his heroine through the various stages of her life to her present exalted station , her Ladyship ' s gallant Vindicator thus concludes his testimony : ' We here close our view of the Countess of Derby , leaving it to her own dear and undiminished lustre , to speak her future praise , in no degree doubting that the rectitude which has preserved her from incurring merited censure in situations the most critical and tryingwill enable her to maintain the
, exalted station to which she has arrived , with a Honour eaual to the Virtus which has procured it . ' * This performance , which is elegantly printed , is ornamented with a striking likeness of her Ladyship , admirably engraved . *
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Review Of New Publications.
the weakness of its friends , or by the maligni y of its enemies . Like yonder sun in the firmament , it shall burst upon , he astonished soul , in all that attractive etrulgence , wuh which Clou hath ori ginally invested if . Its nature its evidences , its tendency , will bt clearly understood , and thorousjhlv felt ' shooting its beams into the remotest i egiens of the globe- P " ' ' Memoir * of the present Countess of Derby ( late Miss Parren ) including Anecdotes
, of several distinguished Persons . B y Petronius Arbiter , Esq . fta . Paves 27 . is . 6 d . Symonds . ' & THIS is one of the most scandalous publications-that has disgraced the English press for a long time . Under the pretence of fidelity , it Reports rh * most atrocious falsehoods , and endeavours to render a person ridiculous who has long stood most deservedl y high in the public esteem both for her aclishments and her virtues
comp . The Testimony of Truth lo exalted Merit : or a Biographical Sketch of the Right Hon . the Countess oj Derby ; in Refutation tf a false and scandalous Libel . With an engraved Portrait . $ to . zs . Fine Edition . . Cawthorn . THTS elegant and spirited performance evidentl y proceeds from no ordinary , pen . It may be pronounced an animated panegyric on the amiable Countess the production of a writer well acquainted with his subject . ' The particulars given of her LtfcbMip are not many , ' but thev are snffir- ; P > f .
, to refute the calumnies with which the public has been insulted in the tract to which it is an answer . Speaking of the penury of Miss Farren ' s early days , when she was left with several other orphans , and a widowed mother , without any sort of dependence , and which Circumstance has been sarcasticall y dwelt upon by c » rtain writers , our author has the following pathetic and serious remarks . / The reader of sensibility , will enter feelingly into the situation of this affiled familthus of their onl
y , deprived y earthly deoendence . H » will not contribute his smile of approbation to the pen of Slander , which d' -ops expressions ofmsnlting triumph on the picture of domestic misery , which exposes the habitation of sorrow to the sneer of the scorner , the envious , and the proud ' « It is not necessary that the truth should- be disguised , —it is far fro ' m being dishonourable to any person of exalted rank , that though title and affluence now surround him , he or his ancestors once dwelt In a cott-ire Innumerable arethe instances which miht be
g produced , of the most illustrious characters having issued from the most lowl y and obscure situations . One shall be alledgedas pertinent and amusing . It is of no less a man than Sixtus the Fifth , Pope of Rome , who used to sport upon the meanness of his own origin inthe most brilliant companies , saying punningly , that he was domi nains iliusin , ' born of an illustrious house , ' which he explained b y describing b ' ; father ' s cottage , through the roof and broken walls of which the solar " ravs had free access . ' ' *
Having conducted his heroine through the various stages of her life to her present exalted station , her Ladyship ' s gallant Vindicator thus concludes his testimony : ' We here close our view of the Countess of Derby , leaving it to her own dear and undiminished lustre , to speak her future praise , in no degree doubting that the rectitude which has preserved her from incurring merited censure in situations the most critical and tryingwill enable her to maintain the
, exalted station to which she has arrived , with a Honour eaual to the Virtus which has procured it . ' * This performance , which is elegantly printed , is ornamented with a striking likeness of her Ladyship , admirably engraved . *