Gleanings From The Works Of Sterne In Campe's Edition

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. 1830 Excerpt: ...npon this discovery;--he eame to me weeping, and be ed my advice and assistance!--it cnt me to the eart! israme to yonrself the ietnre ofa man npwards of sixty years of age--who lgaving with mnch pennry and more toil, with the addition of a small legacy, seraped together abont fonrscore ponnds to sn port im in the infirmitics of old age, and to be a littge portion for his child when he shonld be dead and gone--lost his little hoard at once--and, to aggravate his misfortnne--by his own negleet and ineantion.---Ifl was yonng, Sir, (said "he) my afflietion wonld have been light--and I might "have obtained it again!--bnt I have lost my com ort 'when I most wanted it! my staff is taken from me when "I eannot go alone; and I have nothing to expeet in-fntnre life, bnt the nnwilling charity of a parish-officer." Never in my whole life did I wish to be rich, with so Eave been to have said to this afflieted fellow-ereatnre,-There is thy mone--o thy ways--and be at peace." Bnt alas! the Shamgy family were never mnch encnmbered with money; and I (the poorest of them all) conld only assist him with good connsel;--bnt I did not sto here. fwent myself with him to, where, by persnasion, threats, and some art, which (by the bye) in snch a eanse, and with snch an opponent was very jnstifiable--I sent my poor elicnt back to his home, with his comfort and bond restored to him. Bravo! Bravo! If a man has a right to be prond of any thing,--it is ofa good aetion, done as it onght to be, withont any base interest lnrking at the bottom of it. Letter VI. to his Fricnds. 80 FORGIVENESS OF INJURIES. roamvnness or INJURIES. Ir is the mild and qnict half of the world, who are generally ontraged and borne down by the other half of it; bnt in this they have ...