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The Spiritual Quixote: Or, the Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffrey Wildgoose : A Comic Romance/in Two Volumes
The Spiritual Quixote Or the Summer's Ramble of Mr Geoffrey Wildgoose A Comic Romance/in Two Volumes Author:Richard Graves 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: CHAP. IV. Mr, Wildgoose enters upon a new Courte cf Studies. TUTTERED toast for breakfast now became un- - seasonable, and gave way to sage and bread and b... more »utter. Lamb and salad ceased to be a San- day's dinner, or part of the second course, and was an obvious dish at every table. The parson of F-field no longer threw his oyster-shell iuto the street, ambitiously luxurious! but supped in his garden upon codlins and cream, or a bit of soft cheese and a cucumber. In other words, the spring was far advanced—when Mr. Wildgoose was, one day, sitting in his old-fashioned parlour; and, in an indolent posture, ruminating upon such trifles as usually employ a disgusted mind : the windows were shaded with an over-grown laurel, and the olemn vibrations of an old clock from its sable trunk, with the distant sound of a doleful ditty which the servant whistled as he was digging in the garden, concurred to increase his melancholy. He roll'd his eyes, that witness d huge dismay/ and surveyed over and over again every picture, and every part of the hereditary furniture of the mansion-house, which had been so familiar to his eyes from his very infancy. At last, he happened to fix them on an old forlorn quarto, that lay upon a lofty shelf, covered with dust, and tinged with smoke an inch within the margin. Something prompted him to look into it, which, starting from his elbow chair, he immediately put in execution. He found it to contain a miscellaneous collection of fodly discourses, upon predestination, election and On the Bath road. reprobation, justification by faith, grace and free- will, and ihe like controverted points of divinity; the productions of those self-taught teachers and self-called pastors of the church, in the time of Cromwell's usurpation. As his usual studies had bee...« less