ABSTRACT

Mr. Hanbury took more than ordinary pains to expand my thinking faculties; unfolding, by the eloquence of truth, the many worldly cares which humanity is destined to encounter: he taught me to explore the page of nature with more than childish avidity, and thereby awakened that glowing enthusiasm which has been the source of all my anguish. Events which commonly pass before the eye of youth like fleeting shadows, were to me penetrating and important: for I considered the world as a vast and varying theatre, where every individual was destined to play his part, and to receive the applause or disapprobation of his surrounding contemporaries.