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Sketch Of The Life Of Thomas Dunckerley, Esq. P.G.M.
m the most generous of Princes , one of the opportunities in which I believe his soul is most deli ghted . By whatever meanwt came , blessed be the hand which confers it ; may you , Sir , and your family long enjoy the comforts of such a provision . I am , with great regard , your obli ged and faithful servant , ' * * D , AHSI Edinburgh , Nov . 1 ^ , 1 ^ .
V " I VERY heartil y congratulate you on the happy change you have latel y experienced in your fortune . Lord H . and Mr . W are men whose virtues are of no common stamp , and the bounties of our most amiable and excellent Sovereign cannot flow through channels more worth y of them . It would be a vain attempt , as well as totall y unnecessary to you , to express the sense I have of the iimg humanity and Instances
s goodness . of it frequently come to my knowled ge which fill my heart with joy and add fervency to myprayersthatitmay please God to reward him , even in this life " bv impressing on the minds of all his Subjects a due sense of their obligations to him for so inestimable a blessing , and affectionate dutv to so unparallelled a Prince —The attending Lord in Ireland
. would not ( m my opinion ) be an adviseable scheme , the expence being great and certain , the advantage small and precarious : Lord Granb y may get you a Commission for your Son , and will , i uare say ( recommended as you are ) , do it readily : they advise you well not to ask a favour of him for yourself . Sir Edward ttawke s proposal is indeed very handsome , and should be
erateiuny acceptea ; nis motives for making it do honour to you bothbut as so sudden a rise will infallibly draw envy upon you , it is of importance that you should be extremely circumspect in your benaviour : a man in adversity is a most respectable character : even a certain degree of pride becomes him , as it marks a greatness of mind superior to ill-fortune : and the world readily gives him credit for virtues which neither hurt their clash with
own pride nor their interests : but when the clouds of adversity are dissipated , and the sun of favour shines upon him , he stands in a conspicuous point of un ' cLu" ? i SCe r- " , iS entirdy Chan £ > env ^ malice , and all ncba tableness , find matter to exert their mali gn influence upon mi ' ; , h e J . SpeCtlV , * ? tUmed > his faults magnified , his virtues diminished ; hence the justness of that Proverb "That it is difficult
» , t f n " P ev . ' " > as our f « end Storace expresses it , mm ., ! * ortUnam s , c n 6 s te C 8 lse feremus . " Humility and complacenCy are the armour he can put on ; but it requires judgefen and address to guardagainst the appearances of meanness or siHnn I ' - , ° amiabIe qi ! aIitie s are inherent in the disposition and ripened bjud
y gement , as I am persuaded yours are , the task is much more easy ; for the man who-acts naturally has always rue best chance of pleasing . J nor-l T , T ° - , y ° ° n the state of Mrs . Dunckerley ' s health , GO ' , would ! wish you to be such a Stoical Philosopher as not to b *
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Sketch Of The Life Of Thomas Dunckerley, Esq. P.G.M.
m the most generous of Princes , one of the opportunities in which I believe his soul is most deli ghted . By whatever meanwt came , blessed be the hand which confers it ; may you , Sir , and your family long enjoy the comforts of such a provision . I am , with great regard , your obli ged and faithful servant , ' * * D , AHSI Edinburgh , Nov . 1 ^ , 1 ^ .
V " I VERY heartil y congratulate you on the happy change you have latel y experienced in your fortune . Lord H . and Mr . W are men whose virtues are of no common stamp , and the bounties of our most amiable and excellent Sovereign cannot flow through channels more worth y of them . It would be a vain attempt , as well as totall y unnecessary to you , to express the sense I have of the iimg humanity and Instances
s goodness . of it frequently come to my knowled ge which fill my heart with joy and add fervency to myprayersthatitmay please God to reward him , even in this life " bv impressing on the minds of all his Subjects a due sense of their obligations to him for so inestimable a blessing , and affectionate dutv to so unparallelled a Prince —The attending Lord in Ireland
. would not ( m my opinion ) be an adviseable scheme , the expence being great and certain , the advantage small and precarious : Lord Granb y may get you a Commission for your Son , and will , i uare say ( recommended as you are ) , do it readily : they advise you well not to ask a favour of him for yourself . Sir Edward ttawke s proposal is indeed very handsome , and should be
erateiuny acceptea ; nis motives for making it do honour to you bothbut as so sudden a rise will infallibly draw envy upon you , it is of importance that you should be extremely circumspect in your benaviour : a man in adversity is a most respectable character : even a certain degree of pride becomes him , as it marks a greatness of mind superior to ill-fortune : and the world readily gives him credit for virtues which neither hurt their clash with
own pride nor their interests : but when the clouds of adversity are dissipated , and the sun of favour shines upon him , he stands in a conspicuous point of un ' cLu" ? i SCe r- " , iS entirdy Chan £ > env ^ malice , and all ncba tableness , find matter to exert their mali gn influence upon mi ' ; , h e J . SpeCtlV , * ? tUmed > his faults magnified , his virtues diminished ; hence the justness of that Proverb "That it is difficult
» , t f n " P ev . ' " > as our f « end Storace expresses it , mm ., ! * ortUnam s , c n 6 s te C 8 lse feremus . " Humility and complacenCy are the armour he can put on ; but it requires judgefen and address to guardagainst the appearances of meanness or siHnn I ' - , ° amiabIe qi ! aIitie s are inherent in the disposition and ripened bjud
y gement , as I am persuaded yours are , the task is much more easy ; for the man who-acts naturally has always rue best chance of pleasing . J nor-l T , T ° - , y ° ° n the state of Mrs . Dunckerley ' s health , GO ' , would ! wish you to be such a Stoical Philosopher as not to b *