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Memoirs Of Andrew Brice.
} solved that he should be an honour to their famil y by beinc elevated to the eminent station of a Nonconformist Teacher . Having an ewv situation in view they were not perhaps wrong in fixing upon this line of life for a favourite child . Exeter at that period abounded t Dissenters , and the ministers of the different sects Jived well and acquired goodiortunes But Andrewevil
. ' s genius frustrated tie pious design of his parents . That very liveliness which suggested to them the ptupit as his proper sphere , rendered him ineligible to it . The visage of puntamsm in the West wore at that time a most sombrous appearance ; a lively mind , therefore , ' like that of young Bnce could not bear to be shrouded under
, such a veil . Besides be was of a thoughtless turn . Prudence and forecast had never any influence upon him ; and consequently , i „ a situation like that , he would soon have become disgusting to the starched elders of his flock . He owed , however , to this desi gn of his parents what was of the mos essential service to him throughout life , and that was a grammatical education . _ . At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed emInCntpnnterin Exefebut before
% trJT \ ° 1 ' , P 'he expT - rat on of his term he contracted an indiscreet marriage , and two children , the quick produce of that rash step , plunged him into such difficulty that he enlisted as a soldier , from 4 ich he Zs cfochurged by the intervention of his friends . He commenced business for himself in 1714 and it is remarkable that he had but one sire of iidi oi ieat
£ . «« , . ^ rrimer , tor conducting the whole line of his profession ; and , even under that inconvenience , he set up ' a news-IX ' rt yfi % y puhMled in that cit y- He himself carved in oZJ d ' -ffi iH ° f hlS P P . P » d in *« same manner supplied eveiy ether . difficulty arising from the want of types . About the year il 22 he undertook the cause of the debtors in the city and county prisons and laid before the public ious statemen
a very cop t of S particular grievances , through , as we believe , the channel of h s " ^ . - P f P , Y ^ ver mi ght be his humanity in this condtic ce . an , it is that his prudence was but little , for he was so persona his representation , that a formidable suit was instituted asjait Z ' Jfr P vas east J" heavy damages . This unfortunate stroke obliged him to secrete himself ; and literally to become a prisoner in S 6 and thhe conti ! edif information "
P ,, n r' t f n ., our is right neaily the long period of seven years . Still he continued his business , and experienced such encouragement in it , that , if a grain of discretion had been thrown into his composition he must have been ultimately placed in an affluent situation . While he was a prisoner m his own house he published a Poem on Libert y in blank verse in which he was his
very severe upon persecutors : This publication proauced-him considerable profit ; ' though , upon the whole , it wa a . wretched composition . . ' Not-long after his enlargement he published a miscellany in nrose ¦ "Cn " fr , ? . urious tk / eof " The A greeable Gallimaufiy ! or Matchless Medley , " being himself the author of the principL part of the contents . l " r
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Memoirs Of Andrew Brice.
} solved that he should be an honour to their famil y by beinc elevated to the eminent station of a Nonconformist Teacher . Having an ewv situation in view they were not perhaps wrong in fixing upon this line of life for a favourite child . Exeter at that period abounded t Dissenters , and the ministers of the different sects Jived well and acquired goodiortunes But Andrewevil
. ' s genius frustrated tie pious design of his parents . That very liveliness which suggested to them the ptupit as his proper sphere , rendered him ineligible to it . The visage of puntamsm in the West wore at that time a most sombrous appearance ; a lively mind , therefore , ' like that of young Bnce could not bear to be shrouded under
, such a veil . Besides be was of a thoughtless turn . Prudence and forecast had never any influence upon him ; and consequently , i „ a situation like that , he would soon have become disgusting to the starched elders of his flock . He owed , however , to this desi gn of his parents what was of the mos essential service to him throughout life , and that was a grammatical education . _ . At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed emInCntpnnterin Exefebut before
% trJT \ ° 1 ' , P 'he expT - rat on of his term he contracted an indiscreet marriage , and two children , the quick produce of that rash step , plunged him into such difficulty that he enlisted as a soldier , from 4 ich he Zs cfochurged by the intervention of his friends . He commenced business for himself in 1714 and it is remarkable that he had but one sire of iidi oi ieat
£ . «« , . ^ rrimer , tor conducting the whole line of his profession ; and , even under that inconvenience , he set up ' a news-IX ' rt yfi % y puhMled in that cit y- He himself carved in oZJ d ' -ffi iH ° f hlS P P . P » d in *« same manner supplied eveiy ether . difficulty arising from the want of types . About the year il 22 he undertook the cause of the debtors in the city and county prisons and laid before the public ious statemen
a very cop t of S particular grievances , through , as we believe , the channel of h s " ^ . - P f P , Y ^ ver mi ght be his humanity in this condtic ce . an , it is that his prudence was but little , for he was so persona his representation , that a formidable suit was instituted asjait Z ' Jfr P vas east J" heavy damages . This unfortunate stroke obliged him to secrete himself ; and literally to become a prisoner in S 6 and thhe conti ! edif information "
P ,, n r' t f n ., our is right neaily the long period of seven years . Still he continued his business , and experienced such encouragement in it , that , if a grain of discretion had been thrown into his composition he must have been ultimately placed in an affluent situation . While he was a prisoner m his own house he published a Poem on Libert y in blank verse in which he was his
very severe upon persecutors : This publication proauced-him considerable profit ; ' though , upon the whole , it wa a . wretched composition . . ' Not-long after his enlargement he published a miscellany in nrose ¦ "Cn " fr , ? . urious tk / eof " The A greeable Gallimaufiy ! or Matchless Medley , " being himself the author of the principL part of the contents . l " r