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THE M/VN OF FEELING. 231
attitude of thoughtful infpiration. His
look iiad always an op;n benignity, which
commanded efteem i there was now fome-
Ihing anore—a gentle triumph in it.
He rofe, and met me with his ufual
kindnefs- When I told him the good ac¬
counts I had from his Phyfician, “ I
am foolifh enough, faid he, to rely but
little, in this inftance, upon Phyfic : my
prefentiment may be faile : but 1 think I
feel myfelf approaching to my end, by
fteps fo eafy, that they woo me to ap¬
proach it.
44 There-is a certain dignity in retiring
from life at a time, when the infirmities
of age have not Tapped our faculties.
This world, my dear Charles, was a
fcene in which I never much delighted.
I was not formed for the buftle of the
bufy ; nor the diflipation of the gay ; a
thoufand things occurred where 1 blulhed
for the impropriety of my conduct when
X 2 I thought
attitude of thoughtful infpiration. His
look iiad always an op;n benignity, which
commanded efteem i there was now fome-
Ihing anore—a gentle triumph in it.
He rofe, and met me with his ufual
kindnefs- When I told him the good ac¬
counts I had from his Phyfician, “ I
am foolifh enough, faid he, to rely but
little, in this inftance, upon Phyfic : my
prefentiment may be faile : but 1 think I
feel myfelf approaching to my end, by
fteps fo eafy, that they woo me to ap¬
proach it.
44 There-is a certain dignity in retiring
from life at a time, when the infirmities
of age have not Tapped our faculties.
This world, my dear Charles, was a
fcene in which I never much delighted.
I was not formed for the buftle of the
bufy ; nor the diflipation of the gay ; a
thoufand things occurred where 1 blulhed
for the impropriety of my conduct when
X 2 I thought
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| Antiquarian books of Scotland > Languages & literature > Man of feeling > (243) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/118048144 |
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| Description | Anonymous author: Henry Mackenzie. |
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| Shelfmark | ABS.1.79.241 |
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| Description | Thousands of printed books from the Antiquarian Books of Scotland collection which dates from 1641 to the 1980s. The collection consists of 14,800 books which were published in Scotland or have a Scottish connection, e.g. through the author, printer or owner. Subjects covered include sport, education, diseases, adventure, occupations, Jacobites, politics and religion. Among the 29 languages represented are English, Gaelic, Italian, French, Russian and Swedish. |
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