Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . t sagacious and profound remarks with the wildest absurdity,as well as the same wit and humor. In both, too, there is the same indelicacy—only far more frequent and reckless in Rabelais, whose satire is also animatedin many places by a much more bitter spirit. But in this or any other parallelwhich may be drawn to the disadvantage of
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . t sagacious and profound remarks with the wildest absurdity,as well as the same wit and humor. In both, too, there is the same indelicacy—only far more frequent and reckless in Rabelais, whose satire is also animatedin many places by a much more bitter spirit. But in this or any other parallelwhich may be drawn to the disadvantage of Sternes originality, it ought neverto be forgotten that his highest attribute remains still all his own—his exquisitepathos. Of this there is nothing whatever either in Burton, or Arbuthnot, orK ibelais, or any other with whom he has been compared. None of these wri-ters could have produced the stories of the Dead Assr of Lefevre, of the Monk,or of Maria. Nay, none of them, we may venture to affirm, could have drawnor imagined anything so full of the eccentric and the ludicrous, and yet so mild,so attractive, and, with all its singularity, so true to nature, as the delineationcither of my uncle Toby or of Corporal Trim ; though perhaps Cervantes might. GEORGE WHITEFIELD. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, founder of the sect of Calvinistic methodists, was bornin 1714 at Gloucester, England, where his mother kept the Bell inn. Fromthe Crypt school of his native town he entered as servitor at Pembroke college,Oxford, where he joined the Wesleys and their associates, and on being or-darned deacon at the proper age by Benson bishop of Gloucester he soon ISRAEL PUTNAM. 277 became a popular preacher, and b} his strong, persuasive eloquence multitudeswere prevailed upon to regard him as a man of superior sanctity. In 1738, Whitefield came to America, to increase the number of his converts,whither his fame had preceded him; and through the efforts of Dr. Franklin,he was induced to accept a call fr
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