Like Master Like Man A Novel Author:John Palmer General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1811 Original Publisher: Printed for the relief of the author's widow, and sold by W. Earle Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get f... more »ree trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. No disguise can long conceal love where it is, nor feign ft where it is not. ROCHEFOUCAULT. FOUR years roll'd away, without any material change in the situation, or sentiments, of Philip, (who was now fifteen) when an accident occurr'd, that eventually produced a resolution in both, by removing him from the humble walk of life, in which he had, hitherto, moved, with much reluctance. Near the village of Oakendale, lived Sir . lames Proby, lord of the manor, justice of the peace, and custos rotolorum; as worthy a character as ever gain'd the esteem of his fellow-creatures. By him, the needy vagrant was never wantonly committed to a loathsome prison, the child of poverty neverleft liis gate unbefriended, nor was the humble petitioner answer'd with the superciliousness of puff'd-up power. But, where he ascertain'd a being worthy of punishment, within his jurisdiction, that punishment was made exemplary -- whether the object were in an exalted or low station. In short, he was the friend of virtue, and the scourge of vice; the opponent of the wealthy tyrant, the champion of the oppress'd poor; the aged bless'd Sir James Proby, and even children were taught to lisp his name with gratitude. Sir James was the son of a clergyman, who, having a large family, and no independent fortune, placed him, at an early age, in the compting-house of an eminent merchant, in the city of London. There he soon recommended himself so strongly, by his application to business, and conciliating manners, that his patron tender'd h...« less