Samson shorn and his locks renewed Author:George Duffield 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: APPENDIX. "In justification of your remarks," writes a much esteemed friend, "permit me to illustrate their truth by my own personal knowledge. In my early bo... more »yhood, it was as customary to set the decanter upon the sideboard and table as it was to place the dishes upon it. In fact, the first thing, when either pastor or friend called to pay a social visit, it was the universal practice to present them the glass, or be considered as having been wanting in etiquette. I distinctly remember that in the harvest or hay-field it waa as customary to take the whiskey jug as it was to take the scithe or the rake. Thursday was fixed as washing-day, and on that day a quart of cordial was regularly provided for the females to drink during the washing !" "AN Historical Account or Guinea.—The influence of this work, in giving an impulse to the mind of the indefatigable and beuovolent Thomas Clarkson, whose exertions contributed so much toward bringing about the abolition of the slave trade by the British Parliament, is certainly remarkable. In the year 1785, Dr. Peekard, vice-chancellor of the university of Cambridge, proposedthe following question, for a Latin dissertation, to the senior bachelors of arts, of whom Clarkson was one, viz., Anne liccat invitos in scrvitutem dare? Having in the former year gained a prize for the best Latin dissertation, he resolved to endeavor to maintain the classical reputation he had acquired by applying himself to the subject, but it was one with which he was by no means familiar, and he was at a loss what authors to consult respecting it, ' when yoing by accident (says he) into a friend's house, ItooJc up a newspaper, then lying on the table. One of the articles which attracted my notice, was an advertisement of Anthony Benezefs historical account of ...« less