The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . FOOTE, AS MAJOR STURGEON. The following extract from a letter writ-ten by her in the year 1733 is of specialinterest. The literary reference is to theMoral Essays of Pope, in the third ofwhich, entitled, Of the Use of Riches,the Man of Ross is depicted as the ideallyvirtuous man. The actual prototype wasa Mr. Kyrle, who, af
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . FOOTE, AS MAJOR STURGEON. The following extract from a letter writ-ten by her in the year 1733 is of specialinterest. The literary reference is to theMoral Essays of Pope, in the third ofwhich, entitled, Of the Use of Riches,the Man of Ross is depicted as the ideallyvirtuous man. The actual prototype wasa Mr. Kyrle, who, after a life spent indoing good, died in 1724 at the age ofninety: Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?The Man of Ross, each lisping babe the market-place with poor oerspread !The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread;He feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of state,Where age and want sit smiling at the gate;Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans blest, 342 The Illustrated History of Methodism. DAVID GARRICK. (From an oil painting.) The young who labor, and the old who any sick? the Man of Ross relieves,Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes, and there a variance; enter but his door,Balked are the quacks, and contest is no more;Despairing quacks with curses fled the place,And vile attorneys, now a useless race. From Mrs. Delanys letter it will beseen that her ideal Man of Ross was JohnWesley: On Sunday we had a violent stormof wind, but were obliged to go abroadto a christening, where we were pretty merry. The Wesleys werethere. Have you not readthe poem on Riches, and doyou not think that the Manof Ross suits Mr. Wesley,my hero? I believe thatyou that do not know himas I do will find some re-semblance, but I that havebeen in the way of hearingof all his generous actionsthink the character pointshim out. I have made ac-quaintance with men in Ire-land that I should be heart-ily glad to improve and cul-tivate a friendship with hadI an opp
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