Richardsoniana Or Occasional Reflections On the Moral Nature of Man
Richardsoniana Or Occasional Reflections On the Moral Nature of Man
Jonathan Richardson
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Cbina, P. I. C. 24, p. 120. The Spanijh proverb fays ; " There is no better looking-glafs than an old friend ;"*J but, I believe, an old enemy, or a new one, is itill a better ; becaufe fuch has neither prejudice, nor complaifance, and does not even fo much as pretend to our gratitude for the important fcrvices he does us, if we have but ourfelves the addrefs to receive them, by a little facrifice of our fclf-love ; nay offers an ample amends for this facri-, fice, in the moft noble of all triu...mphs over himfclf, by giving us a power of compel- ling him to the flavifli drudgery of doing ftill more and more good to the man he more and more hates. , " Arch-deacon Reeves, of Norwich, told Mr. Pitt, that making a vifit once to archbifhop Tilktfon, he obferved in his li- brary one Ihelf of books of various forms * No ay mejor t/ptJ9 9 - Queelamigo vitjo. IS f > '93 3 and fizes, all richly bound, and finely gilt and lettered ; fo he afked, * what extraor- dinary authors they were who were fo re- markably diftinguifhed by his grace ?'- * Thofe, faid the archbifhop, 4 arc my own perfonal friends ; and, which is more, whom I have myfelf made fuch (for they meant to be my enemies) by the ufe I have made of thofe hints whir^ their malice hath fug- gefted to me, and IK m which I have re-, ceived more profit than from the advice of my bcft and moft cordial friends ; and there- fore you fee I have rewarded them accord- ingly .
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