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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...kind; See wealth abused, and diguities misplaced, Great titles, officies, and trusts disgraced, Long lines of ancestry, renown'd of old, Their noble qualities all quench'd and cold; See Bedlam's closeted and handeuff'd charge Surpass'd in frenzy by the mad at large; See great commanders making war a trade. Great lawyers, lawyers without study made; Churchmen, in whose esteem their best employ Is odious, and their wages all their joy, Who, far enough from furnishing their shelves With Gospel lore, turn infidels themselves; See womanhood despised, and manhood shamed With infamy too nanseous to be named, Fops at all corners, ladylike in mien, Clveted fellows, smelt ere they are seen, Else coarse and rude in mauners, and their tongue, On fire with curses, and with nouseuse hung, Now fiush'd with drunkeuness, now with whoredom pale, Their breath a sample of last night's regale; See volunteers in all the vilest arts. Men well endow'd, of honourable parts, Desigu'd by Nature wise, but self-made fools; All these, and more like these, were bred at schools. And if it chance, as sometimes chance it will. That though school-bred, the boy be virtuous still; Such rare exceptious, shining in the dark, Prove, rather than impeach the just remark; As here and there a twinkling star descried Serves but to show how black is all beside. Now look on him, whose very voice in tone Just echoes thine, whose features are thine own, And stroke his polish.d cheek of purest red, And lay thine hand upon his fiaxen head, And say, My boy, the unweicome hour is come, When thou, trausplanted from thy genial home, Must find a colder soil and bleaker air, And trust for safety to a stranger's care; What character, what turn thou wilt assume From coustant converse with I know not whom; Who there...

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