Augustine says in his
'Confessions' "My will the enemy held, and thence had made a chain
for me, and bound me. For of a froward will was a lust made; and
a lust served became custom; and custom not resisted became
necessity. By which links, as it were, joined together (whence I
called it a chain) a hard bondage held me enthralled."
(4) Mr. Tufnell, in 'Reports of Inspectors of Parochial School Unions
in England and Wales,' 1850.
(5) See the letters (January 13th, 16th, 18th, 20th, and 23rd, 1759),
written by Johnson to his mother when she was ninety, and he
himself was in his fiftieth year.--Crokers BOSWELL, 8vo. Ed. pp.
113, 114.
(6) Jared Sparks' 'Life of Washington.'
(7) Forster's 'Eminent British Statesmen' (Cabinet Cyclop.) vi. 8.
(8) The Earl of Mornington, composer of 'Here in cool grot,' &c.
(9) Robert Bell's 'Life of Canning,' p. 37.
(10) 'Life of Curran,' by his son, p. 4.
(11) The father of the Wesleys had even determined at one time to
abandon his wife because her conscience forbade her to assent to
his prayers for the then reigning monarch, and he was only saved
from the consequences of his rash resolve by the accidental death
of William III. He displayed the same overbearing disposition in
dealing with his children; forcing his daughter Mehetabel to
marry, against her will, a man whom she did not love, and who
proved entirely unworthy of her.
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