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 . s presents with the chiefs, and thegreat navigator threatened them with his vengeance if Omai was reluctance of this man to return to his original condition was principallyderived from these considerations, which were to him of a strictly personalnature. The habits, amid which the natives of those islands are born, may be
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 . s presents with the chiefs, and thegreat navigator threatened them with his vengeance if Omai was reluctance of this man to return to his original condition was principallyderived from these considerations, which were to him of a strictly personalnature. The habits, amid which the natives of those islands are born, may bemodified by an intercourse with civilized man, but they can not be following lines are extracted from Cowpers beautiful poem on the differ-ent states of society, wherein he apostrophizes this gentle savage, drawnforth from thy native bowers, to show thee here with what superior skill wecan abuse the gifts of Providence, and squander life :— Methinks I see thee straying on the beach,And asking of the surge, that bathes thy foot,If evpr it has washed our distant see thee weep, and thine are honest tears,A patriots for his country : thou art sadAt thought of her forlorn and abject state,From which no power of thine can raise her Portrait of Omai.—Painted by Sir Joshua Reynold*, 316 EDMUND BURKE.
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