. The friend (Volume 3): a series of essays to aid in the formation of fixed principles in politics, morals, and religion, with literary amusements interspersed. LONDON WILLIAM PICKERING 1850 Now for the writing of this werke,I, who am a lonefome clerke,Purpofed for to write a bookAfter the world, that whilome tookIts courfe in olde days long pafTed :But for men fayn, it is now raftedIn worfer plight than it was tho,I thought me for to touch alfoThe world which neweth every day—So as I can, fo as I may,Albeit I ficknefs have and pain,And long have had, yet would I fainDo my minds heft and befi
. The friend (Volume 3): a series of essays to aid in the formation of fixed principles in politics, morals, and religion, with literary amusements interspersed. LONDON WILLIAM PICKERING 1850 Now for the writing of this werke,I, who am a lonefome clerke,Purpofed for to write a bookAfter the world, that whilome tookIts courfe in olde days long pafTed :But for men fayn, it is now raftedIn worfer plight than it was tho,I thought me for to touch alfoThe world which neweth every day—So as I can, fo as I may,Albeit I ficknefs have and pain,And long have had, yet would I fainDo my minds heft and befinefs,That in fome part, fo as I guefs,The gentle mind may be advifed. Govver, Pro. to the Confejf. Amantis. THE FRIEND. INTRODUCTION. Vlttpk Ie|tou t«v Ewoiav-vmi xatk v Je Trap atiTov IxsTvov tov xaipov ETvai xai a,ua jusy aTra-&s^arov ETvai, ct(cta ^e (piXos-opyoTaTov xai to (£s~v 7Tov <ra<pMsEXa^ij-ov tmv lauTo3 xaXaiv Wywfiiwt t«v ai/ToS M. Antoninus.* From Sextus, and from the contemplation of his charac-ter, I learned what it was to live a life in harmony with na-ture ; and that feemlinefs and dignity of deportment, whichinfured the profoundeft reverence at the very fame time thathis company was more winning than all the flattery in theworld. To him I owe likewiie that I have known a manat once the mod difpaflionate, and the moft affectionate, andwho of all his attractions fet the leaft value on the multipli-city of his literary acquifitions. to the editor of the , HOPE you will not afcribe to p
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