leaflets From My Life Author:Mary Kirby 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: A REGULAR PANIC. how much more the universe, with its mechanism, and its wonderful contrivances must have had a Creator ? How true are the words of the Psa... more »lmist, " the fool hath said in his heart there is no God. Rowland Hill's "Village Dialogues" were, in those days, amongst our most edifying Sunday books; though we were quite ignorant of the depth of Mrs. Chipman's guilt, or the heinousness of " My Lord Dash's " crime ; but we liked best, and read first, those parts of advice about marriage. " The boy is the father to the man," and the same proverb may hold good, of the opposite sex. But how impossible it is when once grown up to feel any more as a child ! Then, we used to weep over Mr. Merryman's grave, but now, can read the affecting recital without a sigh. There is such sly wit about Rowland Hill, that it gives a relish to his book, and he is far more liberal with it, than one of his lady characters, who keeps her pepper and salt under lock and key, lest her domestics might flavour their food too highly, and be tempted to eat too much. Then too, we became acquainted with the family of the Greedys and their wealthy uncle, who knew better than anybody else how to turn the pockets of others inside out, that he might fill his own; and who once was going to marry a rich widow, but he frightened her so much with his threatened economy, that she begged off, and had to pay him a good round sum for her breach of the contract. Rowland Hill came one evening to preach in Leicester, at the chapel in Bond Street, and Sarah and I were put to bed more than half an hour too soon, to enable the nurse, Ann Burbidge, to go to hear him. On her return, she was all excitement, and very much delighted with his sermon, in which he had related several telling anecdotes. But bef...« less