Publisher's Synopsis
These are the errors, and these are the fruits of mis-spending our prime youth atthe schools and universities, as we do, either in learning mere words, or such thingschiefly as were better unlearned. Milton.My father was a gentleman, and a man of considerable property. In my infancy andchildhood I was weak and sickly, but the favourite of my parents beyond all mybrothers and sisters, because they saw that my mind was far superior to my sicklyframe, and feared they should never raise me to manhood; contrary, however, totheir expectations, I surmounted all these untoward appearances, and attractedmuch notice from my liveliness, quickness of repartee, and impudence: qualitieswhich have been of much use to me through life.
