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Anecdotes Of The Late Hugh Kelly, Esq.
( ic . irr used to tell him , " he was the a ' villest man , and the most humttu some fellow * he ever had to deal with . " . *¦ The habit of writing—the reading of periodical works—and frequent conversation , which he much delighted in , mended our Author ' s pen apace : he tried his hand . at several Essays , and was successful . _ The Booksellerstoofound out his useand offered him engagements jn the
, , , Ladies Museum , and Court Magazine , which he accepted ; and giving up his . employment as Paragraph-writer , he now commenced Author upon a more liberal and enlarged scale . His industry at this period was equal to his facility in writing : beside the care of these two Magazines , he wrote several occasional Pamphlets for one Pottinger , a Bookseller in Patemoster-Row , upon subjects too
temporary to be rembered now , if we except one , which was " A Vindication of Mr . Pitt ' s ( afterwards Lord Chatham ) Administration . " This Pamphlet attracted the notice of the late Lord Chesterfield , who makes respectable mention of it in the Second Volume of his Letters , p . 505 . Of Pottinger , Kelly used to tell some pleasant Anecdotes : he said he was a man who dashed at thing in the temporary wayand was at
any , one time getting a good deal of money , though he afterwards fell into great indigence . " He had a good back hand in me , " says Kelly , " for he no sooner furnished me with a hint , than I sketched it out on paper , and in this employment went through a great variety of subjects . He was the first man too that taught me to write a receipt for money , the form of which I was till then as ignorant of as writing an Essay On
Algebra . " About this period , with no other fortune than this precarious mode of subsistence , and not above two-and-twenty years of age , our Author married—to mend the matter he married merAy for low , the Lady having no other fortune than her industry at needle-work , with which she sup- , ported herself in a very decent and respectable line . However the motives to this match be consideredby the 'voice of
may ^ ignorance , and the dissipated manners of the times , as ridiculous and imprudent , it cannot be too often ' repeated ( because it is so repeatedly combated by the practice of the World ) , that nothing is so likely to substantiate the happiness of a young couple as MUTUAL AFFECTION ;—it smooths and blesses industry , it propagates and sweetens comforts , and has an am of resistance against the unavoidable ills of life , which fortune
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Anecdotes Of The Late Hugh Kelly, Esq.
( ic . irr used to tell him , " he was the a ' villest man , and the most humttu some fellow * he ever had to deal with . " . *¦ The habit of writing—the reading of periodical works—and frequent conversation , which he much delighted in , mended our Author ' s pen apace : he tried his hand . at several Essays , and was successful . _ The Booksellerstoofound out his useand offered him engagements jn the
, , , Ladies Museum , and Court Magazine , which he accepted ; and giving up his . employment as Paragraph-writer , he now commenced Author upon a more liberal and enlarged scale . His industry at this period was equal to his facility in writing : beside the care of these two Magazines , he wrote several occasional Pamphlets for one Pottinger , a Bookseller in Patemoster-Row , upon subjects too
temporary to be rembered now , if we except one , which was " A Vindication of Mr . Pitt ' s ( afterwards Lord Chatham ) Administration . " This Pamphlet attracted the notice of the late Lord Chesterfield , who makes respectable mention of it in the Second Volume of his Letters , p . 505 . Of Pottinger , Kelly used to tell some pleasant Anecdotes : he said he was a man who dashed at thing in the temporary wayand was at
any , one time getting a good deal of money , though he afterwards fell into great indigence . " He had a good back hand in me , " says Kelly , " for he no sooner furnished me with a hint , than I sketched it out on paper , and in this employment went through a great variety of subjects . He was the first man too that taught me to write a receipt for money , the form of which I was till then as ignorant of as writing an Essay On
Algebra . " About this period , with no other fortune than this precarious mode of subsistence , and not above two-and-twenty years of age , our Author married—to mend the matter he married merAy for low , the Lady having no other fortune than her industry at needle-work , with which she sup- , ported herself in a very decent and respectable line . However the motives to this match be consideredby the 'voice of
may ^ ignorance , and the dissipated manners of the times , as ridiculous and imprudent , it cannot be too often ' repeated ( because it is so repeatedly combated by the practice of the World ) , that nothing is so likely to substantiate the happiness of a young couple as MUTUAL AFFECTION ;—it smooths and blesses industry , it propagates and sweetens comforts , and has an am of resistance against the unavoidable ills of life , which fortune