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The Life Of Bishop Warburton.
However , in suite of his situation , he found means to peruse again -nd digest such of the classic authors as he had read at school , with many others which he understood to be in repute with men of learning and judgment . By degrees , he also made himself acquainted w ith the other elementary studies ; and , by the time his clerkshipwas out , had laid the foundation of , as well as acquired a taste tor ,
< reneral knowledge . . , ° Still , the opinion and expectation of his friends kept him in that profession , to which he had been bred . On the expiration of his clerkship , he returned to his family at Newark ; but whether he practised there or elsewhere as an attorney , we are not certainly informed . . , letters day stronger in him
However , the love of growing every , it was found adviseable to give way to his inclination of taking orders : the rather , as the seriousness of his temper and purity of his morals concurred , with his unappeasable thirst of knowledge , to give the surest presages of future eminence in that profession . [ TO BE CONTINUED /]
Curious Account Of A Dumb Philopher .
CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF A DUMB PHILOPHER .
COMMUNICATED BY A GENTLEMAN ON A TOUP . IN GEHMANY . _ HAVING arrived at Bremen , I was condufted to the principal inn in the town . I found my landlord was a Hig h German , but had resi ed many years in England . We soon grew acquainted . 1 told him I was no tradernor did I seek the company of the English
, nation in . particular : that I travelled for the improvement of my understanding , aud not of my estate : that I should be obliged to him if he could recommend me to the acquaintance of any sober staid gentleman , of universal knowledge and learning ; and that it was . , equally indifferent to me what nation he was of . My landlord , with a seeming joy , answered , he had . a customer that into his
would suit me to a hair ; but the point : would be how to get . conversation . What , ' replied 1 , ' is he so difficult of access , or is his . quality so superior , that it would be a presumption in me to aim at it ? ' ' Not so , ' answered my landlord ,. 'but he is so . sparing of his words , that , though he has constantly frequented my house , once u , week , for near two years , I have hardly ever heard him pronounce ' think
threesentences . ' ' What reason then , said I , ' have you Jo , this taciturn gentleman would be for my purpose ? ' ' Because , ' replied he , 'I am informed he has spent above thirty years of his life in continual travels , not only through all parts of Europe , but even in the most distant regions of the known world . I am , ' comiiuicd he , ' his agent or factor in this city ; for he live-, some mibs distance , in Danish Holstein . His letters come ail directed to my housT ., At lie has frequently large parcels of papers , books , and other things sent him
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Life Of Bishop Warburton.
However , in suite of his situation , he found means to peruse again -nd digest such of the classic authors as he had read at school , with many others which he understood to be in repute with men of learning and judgment . By degrees , he also made himself acquainted w ith the other elementary studies ; and , by the time his clerkshipwas out , had laid the foundation of , as well as acquired a taste tor ,
< reneral knowledge . . , ° Still , the opinion and expectation of his friends kept him in that profession , to which he had been bred . On the expiration of his clerkship , he returned to his family at Newark ; but whether he practised there or elsewhere as an attorney , we are not certainly informed . . , letters day stronger in him
However , the love of growing every , it was found adviseable to give way to his inclination of taking orders : the rather , as the seriousness of his temper and purity of his morals concurred , with his unappeasable thirst of knowledge , to give the surest presages of future eminence in that profession . [ TO BE CONTINUED /]
Curious Account Of A Dumb Philopher .
CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF A DUMB PHILOPHER .
COMMUNICATED BY A GENTLEMAN ON A TOUP . IN GEHMANY . _ HAVING arrived at Bremen , I was condufted to the principal inn in the town . I found my landlord was a Hig h German , but had resi ed many years in England . We soon grew acquainted . 1 told him I was no tradernor did I seek the company of the English
, nation in . particular : that I travelled for the improvement of my understanding , aud not of my estate : that I should be obliged to him if he could recommend me to the acquaintance of any sober staid gentleman , of universal knowledge and learning ; and that it was . , equally indifferent to me what nation he was of . My landlord , with a seeming joy , answered , he had . a customer that into his
would suit me to a hair ; but the point : would be how to get . conversation . What , ' replied 1 , ' is he so difficult of access , or is his . quality so superior , that it would be a presumption in me to aim at it ? ' ' Not so , ' answered my landlord ,. 'but he is so . sparing of his words , that , though he has constantly frequented my house , once u , week , for near two years , I have hardly ever heard him pronounce ' think
threesentences . ' ' What reason then , said I , ' have you Jo , this taciturn gentleman would be for my purpose ? ' ' Because , ' replied he , 'I am informed he has spent above thirty years of his life in continual travels , not only through all parts of Europe , but even in the most distant regions of the known world . I am , ' comiiuicd he , ' his agent or factor in this city ; for he live-, some mibs distance , in Danish Holstein . His letters come ail directed to my housT ., At lie has frequently large parcels of papers , books , and other things sent him