Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons Chiefly of the Present And Two Precedi
Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons Chiefly of the Present And Two Precedi
William H Seward
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Firmin fends for my letter, and ' fays it will be too late, if it does not go pre- * fently. My humble fervice to your Lady, W Mr. Dent, and my Lady Brograve and all the * l good company, and be allured that I am il Ypur obliged humble fervant, * Robert Nelson. " ** All your devout freinds are much your " frrvants. " My mother prefents her humble fervice to u you and your Lady. " To my worthy fretnd the much- " honoured Dr. Mapletoft, tftf u Uamzvelbyi in Hartfordjhire:* LET, DISTINGUISHED PERS...ONS. IC9 LETTER II. . ROBERT NELSON TO DR. MATLETOFT. " London, 2d January 1*79. " WORTHY SIR, " I AM very fenfible that the true ground and " reafon of moft of the difappointments many %i men meet with in the grand tranfa. 5f. Ions of *' their lives, proceeds not (os much fro. N the il nature of things themfelves, as from thofe ex- * travagant conceptions they form of them ; arid * that the chiefeft ingredient of their unhappinefs, <{ is the falfe opinion they have entertained of " fublunary enjoyments, whereby their e*pec- " tations are raifed to fo high a pitch, that as * 'tis not in the capacity of things to gratify, fo '* they were never defigned for that purpofe j * ; which gave occafion to that noble faying of * E pi ductus, homines perturb antur non rebus, fed P its quas de rebus habent opimanibus * ; and to " that of Seneca to the fame fenfe, faplv.
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