SEXAGENARIAN; OR, THE Recollections OF A LITERARY LIFE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. SECOND EDITION. London: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON, No. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; By R. and R. Gilbert, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, 1818. LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS CHAPTER I. Pelliculam veterem retinens et fronte politus THE next personage of whom some detached and mutilated memorandums present themselves, must be an object of conjecture, but the peculiarities concerning him are very striking, and the changes of his character and conduct so very considerable, that it may not be unamusing to some readers, to look back on the last twenty-five years, and endeavour to discover to whom they will apply. The individual alluded to in our Manuscript, is mentioned as having been educated in the principles of the Dissenters, and to have officiated in earlier VOL. II B |