This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 edition. Excerpt: ... p K i L o so p H.E R. 3,1 very vain was his youthful philofophyi, when oppofed to the remoteft probability of fuch a calamity. This apprehenfion, other letters from her father foon ferved greatly to remove. Glenmorris exprefled in them even- more than his former fatisfa&ion at the prafpectof his daughter's marriage; and gave his wife unlimited power to retard or haften it as fhe faw fit. Whatever change of fortune Medora might experience, from the acceffion to a moiety of her grandfather'i property, fhould, he declared, make no difference; he only requefted that, either immediately before or immediately after their marriage, Dc!mont would accompany Mrs. Glenmorris and her daughter to America, and remain with him three or four months. "Of an ordinary character," faid ho, ** in a letter to his wife, of one of thofe men who cannot exift without the accommodations, the luxuries, the frivolous amufements of London or Paris, I know this would be afking a great facrifice: C 4 but. but it is not to the faftidious fine man of the day I give my child; it is to a citizen of the world; to one divefted not only of local prejudice, but I hope of all prejudices; to him, who can live wherever his fellow men can live; to him who can enjoy the fpectacle of a new continent riling into a great ftate by its cultivators --fair cities, Jubjtantial villages, extenfive fields, an immetife country filled with decent hoiifes, good roads, orchards, meadows, bridges; where an hundred years ago, all was wild, woody, and uncultivated*."-- Such a man, I know from his letters, and from your account of him, DeJmont is; on fuch a man I beftow the fecond bleffing I have on earth; and aik only in return, that I may perfonallybe acquainted with him, whom, on report, on...