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Thurlogh, The Milesian.
" tbe remnant of their shaken fortunes scattered before the winds , "—and Thurlogh , " on the world without a home , without a shelter !"
CHAPTER III . ¦ It is a trite remark , and not likely to lose any thing by being repeated here , that the adversities of life are very frequently intended for our actual good . In a moral point of view , I know this will not engender much doubt ; but I mean as to temporalities ; and I rest satisfied from the result
of my own diversified experience , that did men but quietly sit down , upon meetin" with any such crosses—calmly and deliberately submit to their fate , and shake hands , as it were , with the rod that inflicted the stroke , they would not only thereby verify the religious tendency of the aphorism , but acquire additional vigour to prosecute their worldly pursuits with greater probability of succeeding .
" But what ! " somebody will say , " is the fellow going to inflict a sermon upon us now , after making us wade through the whole length of a stupid dialogue and a prophetic impromptu , into the bargain , in the hopes of our lighting upon something like an oasis in the wilderness , something like incident , adventures , or romance , to relieve the dull monotony of common place truisms , to redeem his own veracity , as well as to reward our
credulity ?" Stay , gentle reader , be not you led away by this busy-body " somebody . " I do not intend to bore you with a sermon ; but as I possess some slight knowledge of the movements of this " nether scene , " and a heart overflowing with the milk of human kindness , I intend to give you , so far as my subject will permit me , all the benefit of my researches , which you must be ready to receivewhether I choose to tender them in the shape of introduction , of
, parenthesis , or of commentary . After this fair notice , then , I respectfully submit that you cannot hereafter well charge me with preaching ; because if you dislike my system , you have the means of prevention within your own hands—shut the book at once , and away '—but if , peradventure , you be of a kindlier mode , and willing to go and explore for new issues and occurrences , then " screw up your courage to the sticking place" at once , and let
us jog on together . The close of the last chapter has put the reader in possession of the verification of that prophecy which foretold the overthrow of our hero ' s house . I do not intend any more particular allusion to that event , lest I should involuntarily give offence by directing attention to a quarter where publicity is not courted . Yet this being the great epoch whence our materials all originate , and the source , too , of his " wanderings" in more ways than one , it is not to be supposed that I should pass it over altogether unobserved , or without mentioning , with due delicacy , some few particulars which characterised it .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Thurlogh, The Milesian.
" tbe remnant of their shaken fortunes scattered before the winds , "—and Thurlogh , " on the world without a home , without a shelter !"
CHAPTER III . ¦ It is a trite remark , and not likely to lose any thing by being repeated here , that the adversities of life are very frequently intended for our actual good . In a moral point of view , I know this will not engender much doubt ; but I mean as to temporalities ; and I rest satisfied from the result
of my own diversified experience , that did men but quietly sit down , upon meetin" with any such crosses—calmly and deliberately submit to their fate , and shake hands , as it were , with the rod that inflicted the stroke , they would not only thereby verify the religious tendency of the aphorism , but acquire additional vigour to prosecute their worldly pursuits with greater probability of succeeding .
" But what ! " somebody will say , " is the fellow going to inflict a sermon upon us now , after making us wade through the whole length of a stupid dialogue and a prophetic impromptu , into the bargain , in the hopes of our lighting upon something like an oasis in the wilderness , something like incident , adventures , or romance , to relieve the dull monotony of common place truisms , to redeem his own veracity , as well as to reward our
credulity ?" Stay , gentle reader , be not you led away by this busy-body " somebody . " I do not intend to bore you with a sermon ; but as I possess some slight knowledge of the movements of this " nether scene , " and a heart overflowing with the milk of human kindness , I intend to give you , so far as my subject will permit me , all the benefit of my researches , which you must be ready to receivewhether I choose to tender them in the shape of introduction , of
, parenthesis , or of commentary . After this fair notice , then , I respectfully submit that you cannot hereafter well charge me with preaching ; because if you dislike my system , you have the means of prevention within your own hands—shut the book at once , and away '—but if , peradventure , you be of a kindlier mode , and willing to go and explore for new issues and occurrences , then " screw up your courage to the sticking place" at once , and let
us jog on together . The close of the last chapter has put the reader in possession of the verification of that prophecy which foretold the overthrow of our hero ' s house . I do not intend any more particular allusion to that event , lest I should involuntarily give offence by directing attention to a quarter where publicity is not courted . Yet this being the great epoch whence our materials all originate , and the source , too , of his " wanderings" in more ways than one , it is not to be supposed that I should pass it over altogether unobserved , or without mentioning , with due delicacy , some few particulars which characterised it .