403MSON

THE FRIEND:

In Three Volumes.

VOL. III.

FOURTH EDITION :

With the Author's last Corrections and an Appendix, and

with a Synoptical Table of the Contents

of the Work.

BY HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE, M.A.

THE FRIEND:

A SERIES OF ESSAYS

To aid in the Formation of fixed Principles in Politics,
Morals, and Religion, with Literary
Amusements interspersed:

Now for the writing of this werke,
I, who am a lonesome clerke,
Purposed for to write a book
After the world, that whilome took
Its course in oldè days long paffed:
But for men fayn, it is now laffed
In worfer plight than it was tho,
I thought me for to touch alfo
The world which neweth every day—
So as I can, fo as I may,
Albeit I fickness have and pain,
And long have had, yet would I fain
Do my mind's heft and befiness,
That in fome part, fo as I guess,
The gentle mind may be advised.

GOWER, Pro. to the Confeff. Amantis.

Παρὰ Σέξτου

τως,

THE FRIEND.

INTRODUCTION.

-τὴν ἔννοιαν τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ζῆν, καὶ τὸ σεμνὸν ἀπλάσ-ὥςε κολακείας μὲν πάσης προσηνεςέραν εἶναι τὴν ὁμιλίαν αὐτοῦ, αἰδεσιμώτατον δὲ παρ ̓ αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον τὸν καιρὸν εἶναι· καὶ ἅμα μὲν ἀπαθέςατον εἶναι, ἅμα δὲ φιλοςοργότατον· καὶ τὸ ἰδεῖν ἄνθρωπον σαφῶς ἐλάχισον τῶν ἑαυτοῦ καλῶν ἡγούμενον τὴν αὑτοῦ πολυμαθίην.

M. ANTONINUS.*

From Sextus, and from the contemplation of his character, I learned what it was to live a life in harmony with nature; and that seemlinefs and dignity of deportment, which infured the profound eft reverence at the very fame time that his company was more winning than all the flattery in the world. To him I owe likewife that I have known a man at once the most dispassionate, and the most affectionate, and who of all his attractions fet the leaft value on the multiplicity of his literary acquifitions.

you

TO THE EDITOR OF THE FRIEND.

SIR,

you

HOPE will not ascribe to prefumption the liberty I take in addreffing you on the fubject of your work. I feel deeply interested in the cause have undertaken to fupport; and my object in

L. I. 9. But the paffage is made up from, rather than found in, Antoninus.-Ed.