A Dissertation On the Theory And Practice of Benevolence
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And the number on the jilt Dec. 1793, was 92 boys, and 42 girls. The expences of the foCiety have been mucli increaled this year by the hcting up and putting m lepair all the prcmiles occupied by the mafter-workmen and children jrevious to their re- moval into the new Building of ihc Refoini — alio by the rent of thofe premifes — by the ne- ceilaiy furniture and utcniils of the n^w hoiifes and worklhops — by fetting up the additional trade of rupe-making — and by many incidental charges, the de...tail of all which may be feea at tiie Reform. ( 5i ) CHAP. II. POVERTY AND DISTRESSES OF MEN OF LETTERS. THE cafe that next prefents itfelf is that of men of letters. However we define Genius, it is certain, that thofe, who poffefs it, are not always the moft fuccefsful men in their purfuits. Whether it be, that a delicacy of tafte may, fometimes, produce a faftidioufncfs, unfavourable to induftry j or that an ungovernable imagination is apt to throw off the reftraints of judgement, and to ftart afide from the directions of prudence: Or whether men of let- ters, through their ignorance of the world, are often made fubfervient to the views of others, and pay, too dearly, the price of their indifcretion : for authors and bookfellers are, frequently, like thofe voracious creatures, that devour their own fpe- cies : each follow a profeflion, in which the fair trader is not always the moft fuccefsful man, G However ( s^ ) However, to do the world juftice, it fhouldbe acknowledged, thathoneft men are frequently led into miftakes; and, if a poor author is now and then ftarved to death, they, at leaft, fhould be ac- quitted of cruelty.
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