excuse me if, at the close of this letter, I accommodate to that subject the solemn language with which your own elaborate work concludes. "On this occasion reflect seriously, and conscientiously, dismissing all worldly respects of whatever kind from your mind; for what will the prejudiced opinion of a rash and incredulous informer avail you at that tribunal where we are all soon to appear?"

I have the honour to be, Sir, with great respect, Your well-wisher,

and obedient humble servant,

June, 1819.

SAMUEL PARR.

EXTRACTS

FROM A

PAMPHLET PUBLISHED IN 1795,

INTITULED,

"REMARKS ON THE STATEMENT OF DR. CHARLES COMBE,"

A STATEMENT RELATIVE TO THE VARIORUM HORACE,

EDITED BY H. HOMER AND DR. COMBE.

VOL. III.

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These Extracts are all that could fairly be detached from the immediate subject of the pamphlet. They are referrible chiefly to purposes of self-defence,-to Dr. Parr's share in the Variorum Horace,—to the origin and history of the Preface to Bellendenus, to the character and labours of Henry Homer, his coadjutor in the publication of Bellenden's tracts,-to the Doctor's Critiques in the Reviews of the day,-- and, finally, to several persons of literary and political distinction, whose names were incidentally mentioned. Over the whole pamphlet are liberally scattered observations of great pith and moment, but most of them are too closely involved with the controversial part to be separated; and that controversial part, by Dr. Parr's desire, is not republished.

EXTRACTS

FROM A

PAMPHLET PUBLISHED IN 1795, BY DR. PARR.

I. PERSONAL.

IN the course of an active, and, I hope, not an useless life, I have owed, and I continue to owe, so much of my happiness to the esteem and the gratitude of those whom I have endeavoured to serve, that I am not apt to be ruffled very violently, or galled very severely, by a few straggling instances of ungracious and unmerited treatment. My own spirit is, indeed, too intrepid to recede from my own claims, because they are depreciated by the selfish or slighted by the vain. But my observations upon mankind have been spread through so wide an extent, and exercised upon objects so various, that I have little difficulty in distinguishing between the marks of weakness and guilt in other men-between the effects of temporary situation and habitual principle-between action, which is inconstant, and character, which is more stable. Among those who know me best, I am not exceedingly notorious for professing the regard which I feel not, or dissembling the dislike which I do feel.