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Article SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THOMAS DUNCKERLEY, ESQ. P.G.M. ← Page 6 of 6 Article ANECDOTE OF M. DE MONTESQUIEU. Page 1 of 1
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Sketch Of The Life Of Thomas Dunckerley, Esq. P.G.M.
fuliy awake to all the tender feelings ; but as a Christian Philosopher you will consider that the loss of" friends is the condition of life , nor can we bold it by any other tenure . Mrs . Oughton joins me in wishing you all possible happiness , and I am , Dear Sir ,
Your most faithful Friend and Ercthsr , JAMES ADOLPHUS OUGHTON . "
Anecdote Of M. De Montesquieu.
ANECDOTE OF M . DE MONTESQUIEU .
A Gentleman , beingat Marseilles , hired a boat with an intention /\ of sailing for pleasure ; be entered into conversation wuh the two vouno men who owned the vessel , and learned , that they were not watermen by trade , but silversmiths ; and that when they could be spared from their usual business , they employed themselves in that to increase their earnings . On expressing his surprise
way at their conduct , and iinptitingit to an avaricious disposition ; "Oh ! " sir , " said the young men , "if you knew our reasons , you would ascribe it to a better motive . ' Our father , anxious to asrist his family , scraped together all he was worth ; purchased a vessel for the purpose of trading to the Coast of Barbary , but was unfortunately taken by a pirate , carried to Tripoli , and sold for a slave . He writes of master whotreats
word , that he is luckily fallen into the hands a _ him with great humanity ; but that the sura which is demanded for his ranson ? is so exorbitant , that it will be impossible for him ever to raise it ; be adds , that we must , therefore , relinquish -all hope of ever seeing him , and be contented , that he has as many comforts his situation will admitWith the hopes of restoring to his family
as . a beloved father , we are striving , by every honest means in . our powers , to collect the sum necessary for his ransom , ^ and we are not ashamed to employ ourselves in the occupation of watermen . " The ( rentleman was struck with this account , and on his departure
made them a handsome present . Some months afterwards the young men being at work in their shop , were greatly surprised at ' the-s-udder : arrival cf their father , who threw himself into their arms ; ' exclaiming , at the _ sametime , " that he was fearful they had taken some unjust method to raise the money for bis ransom , for it was too great a sum for them to have their occupation" They professed their i -
gained by , ordinary . gno rance of the whole affair , " and could only suspect they owed their father ' s release to that stranger , to whose generosity they had been before so much obliged . After Montesquieu ' s death , an account of this affair was found among his papers , and the sum actually remitted to Tripoli for the old man ' s ransom . It is a pleasure to bear of such an act of beneunknown to hut
volence performed even by a person totally us ; the pleasure is infinitely increased , when it proves the union of virtue and talents in an author so renowned as Montesquieu .
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Sketch Of The Life Of Thomas Dunckerley, Esq. P.G.M.
fuliy awake to all the tender feelings ; but as a Christian Philosopher you will consider that the loss of" friends is the condition of life , nor can we bold it by any other tenure . Mrs . Oughton joins me in wishing you all possible happiness , and I am , Dear Sir ,
Your most faithful Friend and Ercthsr , JAMES ADOLPHUS OUGHTON . "
Anecdote Of M. De Montesquieu.
ANECDOTE OF M . DE MONTESQUIEU .
A Gentleman , beingat Marseilles , hired a boat with an intention /\ of sailing for pleasure ; be entered into conversation wuh the two vouno men who owned the vessel , and learned , that they were not watermen by trade , but silversmiths ; and that when they could be spared from their usual business , they employed themselves in that to increase their earnings . On expressing his surprise
way at their conduct , and iinptitingit to an avaricious disposition ; "Oh ! " sir , " said the young men , "if you knew our reasons , you would ascribe it to a better motive . ' Our father , anxious to asrist his family , scraped together all he was worth ; purchased a vessel for the purpose of trading to the Coast of Barbary , but was unfortunately taken by a pirate , carried to Tripoli , and sold for a slave . He writes of master whotreats
word , that he is luckily fallen into the hands a _ him with great humanity ; but that the sura which is demanded for his ranson ? is so exorbitant , that it will be impossible for him ever to raise it ; be adds , that we must , therefore , relinquish -all hope of ever seeing him , and be contented , that he has as many comforts his situation will admitWith the hopes of restoring to his family
as . a beloved father , we are striving , by every honest means in . our powers , to collect the sum necessary for his ransom , ^ and we are not ashamed to employ ourselves in the occupation of watermen . " The ( rentleman was struck with this account , and on his departure
made them a handsome present . Some months afterwards the young men being at work in their shop , were greatly surprised at ' the-s-udder : arrival cf their father , who threw himself into their arms ; ' exclaiming , at the _ sametime , " that he was fearful they had taken some unjust method to raise the money for bis ransom , for it was too great a sum for them to have their occupation" They professed their i -
gained by , ordinary . gno rance of the whole affair , " and could only suspect they owed their father ' s release to that stranger , to whose generosity they had been before so much obliged . After Montesquieu ' s death , an account of this affair was found among his papers , and the sum actually remitted to Tripoli for the old man ' s ransom . It is a pleasure to bear of such an act of beneunknown to hut
volence performed even by a person totally us ; the pleasure is infinitely increased , when it proves the union of virtue and talents in an author so renowned as Montesquieu .