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'mous WRITINGS or WIL ' 0-
)WPER, Eat.
0 HAYIAir, Esq.
iplary and admirable man'is,
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.ny pleasing and many pain- A 4‘
should entertain bin a had .
sensibility, who could peruse . i
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'ore us, without leering the
feFlion, of reverence, and of 1
our nature in a near advance
in consequence of the aCtion
s, from their minuteness not
i•om their power not to be re- .
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most deplorable abasement. ti
ide of intellea in close union ii
t sadly convinces us, if the
n world had left us in doubt :i-4
Tad, that even innocence and i 4
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of God and of men, presiding
iple of the heart, cannot al-
;hine of the mind, while it is
ry nooZ and controuled by the ~
L. A disarrangement of the I
:k the most curious search of
ration of any of those innu-
which . this immediate organ
itv through our frames, may •
the imagination, and intik% .
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terrible pains and penalties .
cached to guilt. If this were ,
might with reason question
r Ilion : but the sufferings of - ,
Pnedt, and Toori for ler a far •
',;191 ; while those of guilt-- ~
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are the harbingers only of -
d more abiding.
[ F.TaK was of a family which, :t
peetable, and which, in the
century, attained to the ho-
c. the_ person of William Cow- i
and High Chancellor of Eng-
er, the Chancellor's younger
le same time the two offices of
i Pleas and of Chief Justice of
:owper, D. D. the Judge'
ream- of Berkhampstead, in i
nc of George the Second's
grandfather and the fattier of 4 1
ative. Our author was born
' Berkliampstead, on the 2tStli •
id experienced the misfortune,
cd his sixth year, of losing his
!r of Roger Donne, Esq. of
olk), who died in child-bed, i
has feelingly recorded. After
t a country-school in Market- ~ i
re, he was sent to Westniin-
bed till, h his eighteenth year,
office of an attorney, of the
From the house of Mr. Chap-
-1 three years, he removed to
Temple, and set up as a pro•
he law. The law, hoviever,_
;ion, was always the objea of
as disqualified, by an extreme
• of mind, for the tumult and
ic life. His diffidence urged
d his imagination courted the
During his residence in the
I among his principal friends
; of Lord Thurlow, Mr. Jo-
lornton, Colman, and Robert
r three he had been at school ;
friendship, which he had be.
estminster, he steadily main-
on of their lives. At the age
appointed reading-clerk, and
committees in the House of •
c nerves incapacitatinghim fur • i
red him to read in public, the
•as exchanged, by the interest
appointment of clerk of the '
su se of Parliament. In this nese
d, that no public exhibition of
cessary : but, unfortunately,
ase demanded his app6rance
:ouse ; and his utter inability,
Ay in this instance with his
relinquish his Place. Happy
been, if the loss of fortune
is eccasion, the whole of his
ion of terror was so powerful
1, and to leave him in a mi- '
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disorder. In this deplorable ' I
ived to St. Alban's, where he
arc of Dolor Cotton, from ,
ly 1764.
ii to emerge from the clou.l
hl it I and he went to reside
uation of which allowed him
th his brother, John Cowper,
!sident fellow of Bennet Col-
1.
kt Huntingdon, our Segues-
iendship with Mr. linwin, a' ,
who lived in that town, into
mined as an inmate, and with
Leath efFeeledtheir separation.
by a fall from his horse, in
e following W./ober his wi- i
!moved to Olney in Bucking.
lived, with an united house.
s. The amity between these ' ,
ersons was memorable for its
I its duratiot.. For the space
(
it subsisted with encreasin:
.s of age summoned Mrs, Lo-
'epees Muse, from a life in !.
iuently useful to her unhappy .
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i and ntirse during the long i
ris of his afßißing disorder.
made his first public appear-
During his residence in the
ins were either inconsiderable
r were distributcd'among his
ato the world with his n:zas. ) i
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