BY THE REV. ROBERT LYNAM, A.M. ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN TO THE MAGDALEN HOSPITAL. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: PRINTED FOR GEORGE COWIE AND CO. IN THE POULTRY. 1825. WALSH ...... 518 522 525 530 540 594 598 605 626 638 ........ 655 THE ADVENTURER* N° 34. SATURDAY, March 3, 1753. Has toties optata exegit gloria pænas.-Juv. TO THE ADVENTURER. SIR, Fleet Prison, Feb. 24. a benevolent disposition, every state of life will rd some opportunities of contributing to the welfare mankind. puence and splendour are enabled to je I the cloud of adversity, to dry up the tears of the w and the orphan, and to increase the felicity of all und them : their example will animate virtue, and ird the progress of vice. And even indigence and curity, though without power to confer happiness, , at least prevent misery, and apprize those who are ided by their passions, that they are on the brink of mediable calamity.' Pleased, therefore, with the thought of recovering ers from that folly which has embittered my o n days, ave presumed to address the ADVENTURER :rom the ary mansions of wretchedness and despair, of which so wonderfully constructed, as to fly open tion of strangers, though they are impervious adamant to such as are within them; -Faciles descensus Averni ; ?s atque dies patet atri janua Ditis : svocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, spus, hic labor est.--VIRG. rates of Hell are open night and day; th the descent, and easy is the way : o return and view the cheerful skiess the task and mighty labour lies.-Deyden. |