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THE AUTHOR TO THE READRR OK THIS
BIOGRAPHY.
"!T seems rational to hope/' says Johnson m the .hifit of
Savage, " that minds qualified for groat attainments should llrnt " endeavour their own benclit; and that they who are must, able "to teach others the way to happiness, should with mont rr-r- " taiuty follow it themselves: but thin expectation, huwrvrr "plausible., has been very frequently disappointed," I'crimp* not so frequently as the earnest biographer imagined. Murh depends on what we look to for our benefit, mut-h on what »«? follow as the way to happiness. It may not bo for this ow*, IIIH! may have led us far out of tho wtvy of the other, that wn hat! acted on tho world's estimate of worldly RUOOCIM, nntt to I hut directed our endeavour. So might wo ouwIvt'H lijtv«' blurkw! up the path, which it was our hopes to have pniuftil cntf lu uthrn*; mid, in the stnvits of a aclfiHh prollf, made wwk «»f attainments.
OLCVJSR GOLDSMITH, whoau life and iidvt?ritttft'a nhuuhi be
known to all who know hi.s wrilingn, must lw« lirlit t« luivt? sueceeded in nothing (hat It in fricjidf* wwiilil havt* hait iitm f»rer«l in. He wius intended fur u t'lrrgviinuij i»m! wira rrjiTteii lie |
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