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Memoirs Of The Late . Dr. Paul Hiffernan.
to a common share of prudence and industry , to make himself respectable and independent . AH his bad qualities seemed to grow out of his indolence , and he adds another name to the long list of martyrs who have sacrificed to this destructive and degrading vice . Men of this stamp act as if they consider themselves as a " kind of rent-charge upon Providence" who is obliged to invert the order of nature in their
, favour , and provide for them at the public expence . Repeated disappointments , nor the severe bites of poverty , will not set them ri g ht , and , as life must be supported ( and sometimes according to their extravagant ideas of support ) , the means , of course , must be unjustifiable . The following , as far as we have been able to collect , is a chronolo- .
gical list of Dr . Hiffernan's works : The Ticklers ; a Set of Periodical Papers published in Dublin about 1750 . The Tuner ; a Set of Periodical Papers , published in 1753 . Miscellanies in Prose and Verse , Lond . 1754 . The Ladies Choice , a Dramatic Petit Piece , 1759 . The Wishes of
a Free People , Dramatic Poem , 1761 . The New Hypocrates , a Farce , i _ . p . 1761 . , . The Earl of Warwick , a Tragedy , 1764-. Dramatic Genius , in Five Books , 1770 . Philosophic Whim , 1774 . Heroine of the Cave , taken from Jones's " Cave of Idra , " a Tra » gedy , 1775 .
Sketch Of The Life Of M. Brissot.
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF M . BRISSOT .
[ Written by himself . ]
Patricius , SocRATisnon fuit ! CLEANTHES A quam Traxit ! PLATO—NEM , non accepit , Nobilem , PHII . OSOI . HIA , sed fecit . SENECA . SOCRATES was not a man of FASHION ! CLEANTHES , actually , by Gad , a Water Drawer ! and PLATO , poor fellow , had some Philosophy , to be sure , but positively ' no pedigree at all I MS . Translation presented to Lord LEICESTER from the Library at MOUNT-EDGECUMBE .
A Moral and political writer is the compatriot , the friend , the brother , the counsellor of those who read him . There . is formed between them a pleasing society , a communion of- ideas . Now , we love thoroughly to know those whom we frequent ; we take a deli ght in seeing thein without a blemish , The reader judges the moral writer with the severity of C _ esar in the case of his wife . It is , therefore , on this occasion , that I particularly address myself to the readers of my
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Memoirs Of The Late . Dr. Paul Hiffernan.
to a common share of prudence and industry , to make himself respectable and independent . AH his bad qualities seemed to grow out of his indolence , and he adds another name to the long list of martyrs who have sacrificed to this destructive and degrading vice . Men of this stamp act as if they consider themselves as a " kind of rent-charge upon Providence" who is obliged to invert the order of nature in their
, favour , and provide for them at the public expence . Repeated disappointments , nor the severe bites of poverty , will not set them ri g ht , and , as life must be supported ( and sometimes according to their extravagant ideas of support ) , the means , of course , must be unjustifiable . The following , as far as we have been able to collect , is a chronolo- .
gical list of Dr . Hiffernan's works : The Ticklers ; a Set of Periodical Papers published in Dublin about 1750 . The Tuner ; a Set of Periodical Papers , published in 1753 . Miscellanies in Prose and Verse , Lond . 1754 . The Ladies Choice , a Dramatic Petit Piece , 1759 . The Wishes of
a Free People , Dramatic Poem , 1761 . The New Hypocrates , a Farce , i _ . p . 1761 . , . The Earl of Warwick , a Tragedy , 1764-. Dramatic Genius , in Five Books , 1770 . Philosophic Whim , 1774 . Heroine of the Cave , taken from Jones's " Cave of Idra , " a Tra » gedy , 1775 .
Sketch Of The Life Of M. Brissot.
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF M . BRISSOT .
[ Written by himself . ]
Patricius , SocRATisnon fuit ! CLEANTHES A quam Traxit ! PLATO—NEM , non accepit , Nobilem , PHII . OSOI . HIA , sed fecit . SENECA . SOCRATES was not a man of FASHION ! CLEANTHES , actually , by Gad , a Water Drawer ! and PLATO , poor fellow , had some Philosophy , to be sure , but positively ' no pedigree at all I MS . Translation presented to Lord LEICESTER from the Library at MOUNT-EDGECUMBE .
A Moral and political writer is the compatriot , the friend , the brother , the counsellor of those who read him . There . is formed between them a pleasing society , a communion of- ideas . Now , we love thoroughly to know those whom we frequent ; we take a deli ght in seeing thein without a blemish , The reader judges the moral writer with the severity of C _ esar in the case of his wife . It is , therefore , on this occasion , that I particularly address myself to the readers of my