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Thus you see what a felling away there is amongst the young men of this generation . If after all this news you should be desirous to hear any thing of the personal condition of your humble servant , you must know I have
made a small change in my studies too , from the spirit to the flesh ; or in plainer terms , from divinity to anatomy ; which , with a little experimental philosophy , and a little good company , will fill up my time this winter , and then in the spring I shall go down into Derbyshire , and be buried with my forefathers . But to shew you that I have not entirely forsaken divinity , practical at least , I shall mention to you a note of Mr . Henry , which I met
with lately in the course of my reading , upon the story of the fig-tree . Observe , says he , how intent our blessed Lord was upon his work . , He came out without his breakfast , and when afterwards he found himself an
hungered , he was contented with a few raw green figs , when something warm would have been much more proper for him . As I intended this letter for a rhapsody , I shall mention a story next , which has nothing common with
the last , but Mr . Henry ' s name . Mr . Emlyn went to see him once at Hackney , and Mr . Henry fell into discourse of a good man of his church just then dead , whom he represented as a man of heavenly affections , and very dead to this world , for he had often heard
him say , there was nothing upon earth he was sorry he should part with when he died , but his Bible . Emlyn was so provoked at the nonsense , that he took his hat and gloves and went away almost without taking leave . We have had a great deal of talk about the Scotch silver mine . I am
told , from good hands , that Sir Isaac Newton says he has proved the ore > and finds it to yield 9 § rf . an ounce , and that it will be likely to pay all the nation ' s debts in a few years * time . The prince has gained very much upon the
affections of the people about Hampton Court , and every body after his example affected to be popular . One of the young princesses , at a ball there , after she had danced till she was weary , retired into a corner of the room , and said she would dance no more tkht night ; but a gentleman , that was desirous of the honour , got one of their acquaintance to beg sfee would danco
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/ jPtoni Mr . Seeker . London , Thursday , Oct ., 1716 . Dear Sir , I admit very readily your whole apology , and am obliged to you for every part of your letter , excepting that which seems to bear hard upon our friend Sam . Chandler , and in that part I intend you shall be obliged to me . Saip , I am very well assured , is in perfect charity with you , and would be more than a little concerned to
think you were otherwise with him . You are , in short , a couple of very good friends that have fallen out about a trifle long enough ago to have forgot it , and want nothing of being reconciled
but only to be told that you are so . If there were any thing of sharpness in his last , I suppose . it was only in the complaints I desired him to make , though I gave him no directions as to the words . But to leave this—Mr .
Read has been married almost a month . Two or three days after the wedding , his spouse gave him a letter that Mr . Wilcox had wrote , with a design of putting a stop to the matter , about a quarter of a year before he turned him out of his place . Jerry Burroughs ' s wife is with child , and he is going to take a house . Poor Monkley is very much mortified upon the
occasion , but gives his friends to understand , by obscure hints , that Mr . Burroughs ' s triumph will not be long lived . But this wants confirmation * Kirby Reyner has had one chance more for success in the world , and willingly let it pass by him . What the next will
be I know not . When Mr . Freke died , ( b y the foreign news styled JVJinister Nonjurant instead of Nonconformist , ) Mr . Reyner ' s interest in that congregation was so great , that if Dr . Avery would have accepted the place of pastor , nobody could have been chose
assistant but himself . But the Doctor chose rather to be Mr . Reyner ' s assistant , and Mr . Reyner resolved not to be-pastor , and so all the matter fell to the ground . I suppose you have heard long ago that the Doctor is married , and has , £ 600 a-year settled on him . Kit Fowler , a young parson you must have heard of , has changed his band * or an apron , and turned grocer ; and Y'uttenden is married to Cliff ' s widow ; and will , if I mistake not , in a , Wtle time 4 eg £ n $ rate into a J > oqk ^ Uei \
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 571, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/3/
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