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The Collector.
come , Master Moody , said Roger , ' you are wrong there , at any rate ; it does not strike me as any such thing . '— ' No , ' rejoined Moody , ' give me your reasons . ' ' Look in the title page , ' said the other , ' and you will see it was disapproved from the beginning . See here ( shewing the book ) it is noted as one of Shakspeare ' s hist , plays . ' Thus mistaking the abbreviation of the word historical for a fixed mark of popular censure .
GENIUS . JOHN EDYVEAK , a native of Cornwall , was born to affluent circumstances , but dissipated his wealth in pursuits that had for their object the good of mankind , although he failed to obtain their sanction and support . Plis whole life was spent in vain endeavours to complete projects of a vast extent , from which he derived only the mortification of being considered by his friends as an airy schemerwith whom
, it was dangerous to be connected : nevertheless , there remain to this day , in that county , several monuments of bis ingenuity . that excite the admiration of kindred talents , and the present regret of every one that he was not able to effect his views . About the year 1777 , h-e laid before a county meeting of Cornwall ; the plan of a canal for traversing the whole kingdom without a single lock , by means of
inclined planes ; but it was rejected as wild and chimerical . —Before he died , however , he found the means of shewing its practicability , by a small specimen of such a work . ' . The use that is made of sea-sand for the purposes of manure , in the county of Cornwall , is well known . The inhabitants carry this sand from the coasts injp the interior parts of the count y , by land carriage , twenty miles and upwards . Our projector conceived the design , in the latter part of his days , of making a navigable canal to
save this labour ; and , by confining his attention to this sole object , he , in part , accomplished it , under very disadvantageous circumstances . His pecuniary resources were verynearly exhausted ; the whole world , as well as his nearest relations , had abandoned to his fate a man whom no losses could divert from what they deemed visionary pursuits . The of the
prejudices country were strongly against him , since a great number of persons reaped benefit from employing their teams in carrying the sand , at seasons when they had -little else to do ; and poor Edyvean himself was wearing down apace by age , and was very nearly blind . He struggled under all these difficuTties with a cheerfulness and a perseverance that gained him no less admiration than the
compassion . In year -1770 , -he had finished this canal up to the town of St . Columb , about six miles from the sea ; It approached the sea no nearer than to the summit of an immense cliff , down which he had constructed an inclined plane , for drawing up the sand from the shore , on the . principles explained b y Mr . Leach , On this spot , and throughout the whole course of the canal , there was an abundant display of mechanic contrivance . In that year , I went with some friends to visit this work . We overtook the poor old man , gropinohis way by the side of his canal , and leading a miserable little horse h
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The Collector.
come , Master Moody , said Roger , ' you are wrong there , at any rate ; it does not strike me as any such thing . '— ' No , ' rejoined Moody , ' give me your reasons . ' ' Look in the title page , ' said the other , ' and you will see it was disapproved from the beginning . See here ( shewing the book ) it is noted as one of Shakspeare ' s hist , plays . ' Thus mistaking the abbreviation of the word historical for a fixed mark of popular censure .
GENIUS . JOHN EDYVEAK , a native of Cornwall , was born to affluent circumstances , but dissipated his wealth in pursuits that had for their object the good of mankind , although he failed to obtain their sanction and support . Plis whole life was spent in vain endeavours to complete projects of a vast extent , from which he derived only the mortification of being considered by his friends as an airy schemerwith whom
, it was dangerous to be connected : nevertheless , there remain to this day , in that county , several monuments of bis ingenuity . that excite the admiration of kindred talents , and the present regret of every one that he was not able to effect his views . About the year 1777 , h-e laid before a county meeting of Cornwall ; the plan of a canal for traversing the whole kingdom without a single lock , by means of
inclined planes ; but it was rejected as wild and chimerical . —Before he died , however , he found the means of shewing its practicability , by a small specimen of such a work . ' . The use that is made of sea-sand for the purposes of manure , in the county of Cornwall , is well known . The inhabitants carry this sand from the coasts injp the interior parts of the count y , by land carriage , twenty miles and upwards . Our projector conceived the design , in the latter part of his days , of making a navigable canal to
save this labour ; and , by confining his attention to this sole object , he , in part , accomplished it , under very disadvantageous circumstances . His pecuniary resources were verynearly exhausted ; the whole world , as well as his nearest relations , had abandoned to his fate a man whom no losses could divert from what they deemed visionary pursuits . The of the
prejudices country were strongly against him , since a great number of persons reaped benefit from employing their teams in carrying the sand , at seasons when they had -little else to do ; and poor Edyvean himself was wearing down apace by age , and was very nearly blind . He struggled under all these difficuTties with a cheerfulness and a perseverance that gained him no less admiration than the
compassion . In year -1770 , -he had finished this canal up to the town of St . Columb , about six miles from the sea ; It approached the sea no nearer than to the summit of an immense cliff , down which he had constructed an inclined plane , for drawing up the sand from the shore , on the . principles explained b y Mr . Leach , On this spot , and throughout the whole course of the canal , there was an abundant display of mechanic contrivance . In that year , I went with some friends to visit this work . We overtook the poor old man , gropinohis way by the side of his canal , and leading a miserable little horse h