ABSTRACT
Mr Gresham, a Bristol merchant, who had, by honourable industry and ceconomy accumulated a considerable fortune, retired from business to a new house, which he had built upon the Downs, near Clifton. Mr Gresham, however, did not imagine, that a new house, alone, could make him happy: he did not propose, to live in idleness and extravagance; for such a life would have been equally incompatible with his habits and his principles. He was fond of children, and as he had no sons, / he determined to adopt one of his relations. He had two nephews, and he invited both of them to his house, that he might have an opportunity of judging of their dispositions, and of the habits which they had acquired.
