Fitzosborne's letters Author:William Melmoth 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: tion, in compliance with those metaphysical reasonings; which are usually calculated rather to silence, than to satisfy, an humble enquirer after truth ? Who... more » indeed would wish to be convinced, that he stands unguarded by that heavenly shield, which can protect him against all the assaults of an injurious and malevolent world ? The truth is, the belief of a particular providence is the most animating persuasion that the mind of man can embrace ; it gives strength to our hopes, and firmness to our resolutions ; it subdues the insolence of prosperity, and draws out the sting of affliction. In a word, it is like the golden branch to which Virgil's hero was directed, and affords the only secure passport through the regions af darkness and sorrow. I am,« less