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Article FLORIO; OR, THE ABUSE OF RICHES. ← Page 3 of 3 Article ON THE TITLE OF ESQUIRE. Page 1 of 5 →
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Florio; Or, The Abuse Of Riches.
the most sublime pleasure the human heart can feel—these weighed nothingm . FLORio ' s mind in the scale opposed to that of enlarging a barn , erecting a deceptio visits , or procuring the completest stud or pack in the county ; which last , indeed , he kept more for show than for use . The malediction s of those whom he had injured by his encroachments and at
oppressions were last heard ; and that Providence , whose good gifts he had so long perverted , poured its vengeance on his head . It was in the act of commanding a cottao-e to be converted to a kennel for his hounds , that he was seized ° with an apoplexy , and fell lifeless to the earth : and thus was an end put to the life of a wretch who had not to sit down with
, grace a grateful heart to God for what was amply sufficient for all the purposes of man . Insere nunc Meliboee pyros , pone online vites . / -. n •VIECS . Go , Melibceus , ' now ,
Go graft thy orchards and thy vineyards plant ; Behold the fruit ! S . J .
On The Title Of Esquire.
ON THE TITLE OF ESQUIRE .
THAT the honours of nobility may , even by creation , as well as . natural descent , fall upon unworthy persons , is a fact which it would be foolish to deny , because it would be impossible ; and which it would be weak to repine at , because it is the fate of all institutions not to be able to exclude certain abuses . A profession is not lessened in the eyes of a sensible man , because an unworth has been admitted into
y person it ; and with all the faults of individual noblemen , it will be found , that the institution ofthe peerage has been the nurse of patriotism and public virtue , and impresses the mind with a kind of superior caution against vice , ¦ cowardice , and perfidy , which the general mass of mankind are without . It is not , however , my intention , in the following observations to interfere at
, all in speculative questions on the advantages or disadvantages of created or hereditary nobility ¦ but to point out tlie absurd abuse of a title , wliich , from vanity and foolish complaisance , has been so generally extended , as to lose its dignity , and become almost a term of reproach . The title I mean is that of Esquire , appended to the name by the common abbrevation Esq . Let us consider what this title waft
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Florio; Or, The Abuse Of Riches.
the most sublime pleasure the human heart can feel—these weighed nothingm . FLORio ' s mind in the scale opposed to that of enlarging a barn , erecting a deceptio visits , or procuring the completest stud or pack in the county ; which last , indeed , he kept more for show than for use . The malediction s of those whom he had injured by his encroachments and at
oppressions were last heard ; and that Providence , whose good gifts he had so long perverted , poured its vengeance on his head . It was in the act of commanding a cottao-e to be converted to a kennel for his hounds , that he was seized ° with an apoplexy , and fell lifeless to the earth : and thus was an end put to the life of a wretch who had not to sit down with
, grace a grateful heart to God for what was amply sufficient for all the purposes of man . Insere nunc Meliboee pyros , pone online vites . / -. n •VIECS . Go , Melibceus , ' now ,
Go graft thy orchards and thy vineyards plant ; Behold the fruit ! S . J .
On The Title Of Esquire.
ON THE TITLE OF ESQUIRE .
THAT the honours of nobility may , even by creation , as well as . natural descent , fall upon unworthy persons , is a fact which it would be foolish to deny , because it would be impossible ; and which it would be weak to repine at , because it is the fate of all institutions not to be able to exclude certain abuses . A profession is not lessened in the eyes of a sensible man , because an unworth has been admitted into
y person it ; and with all the faults of individual noblemen , it will be found , that the institution ofthe peerage has been the nurse of patriotism and public virtue , and impresses the mind with a kind of superior caution against vice , ¦ cowardice , and perfidy , which the general mass of mankind are without . It is not , however , my intention , in the following observations to interfere at
, all in speculative questions on the advantages or disadvantages of created or hereditary nobility ¦ but to point out tlie absurd abuse of a title , wliich , from vanity and foolish complaisance , has been so generally extended , as to lose its dignity , and become almost a term of reproach . The title I mean is that of Esquire , appended to the name by the common abbrevation Esq . Let us consider what this title waft