![]() ![]() ![]() The loss of fortune only serves to increase the pride of the worthyģ. The description of the family of Wakefield in which a kindred likeness prevails as well of minds as of personsĢ. Such as mistake ribaldry for humour, will find no wit in his harmless conversation and such as have been taught to deride religion, will laugh at one whose chief stores of comfort are drawn from futurity.ġ. In this age of opulence and refinement whom can such a character please? Such as are fond of high life, will turn with disdain from the simplicity of his country fire-side. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey, as simple in affluence, and majestic in adversity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. ![]() There are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. ![]()
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