Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: small patrimony, was uncommonly charitable, particularly to his poor neighbours, in and about King's- Cliffc. In this benevolent disposition he was joined by the two maiden ladies, [Elizabeth Hutchinson and Hester G ibbon,] with whom he resided Their object was not to encourage the idle and dissolute, but ta promote and facilitate the good intentions and endeavours of the industrious. Such was the little value he set on money, that he gave the copies of all his works intended for publication to his booksellers; but for one of them, they insisted upon his acceptance of one hundred guineas. The following circumstances whereby he was enabled to bo extensively useful, are remarkable.— Attending the feast of the sons of the clergy at St. Paul's cathedral, a gentleman who was unknown to him came to him and asked his name, to whom he modestly answered, "My name, sir, is William Law." Whereupon the gentleman gave him a letter directed to our author himself, which he, for the present, put into his pocket, and which, upon opening it at a convenient opportunity, he found enclosed a bank note for one thousand pounds sterling; and at another time a bank note for five hundred pounds sterling, was sent him from an unknown hand. The pious and catholic Doddridge, in a sermon to young persons, has the following passage concerning William Law. ' It is an awakening saying of one of the most lively and pathetic, as well as most pious, .writers which our age has produced, ''that the condition of man in his natural state, seems to be like that of a person sick of a variety of diseases, knowing neither his distemper nor cure, but unhappily enclosed in a place where he could hear, or see, or taste, or feel nothing, but what tended to inflame his disorder." The writer of the Life of John Buncle (a... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.