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BOOK THE FIRST.

CHAPTER I.

-•4"- -

SCHOOL DAYS AND HOLIDAYS.
I72S—1740.

THE marble in Westminster Abbey is correct in the place, 3728.
but not in the tmin, of the birth of OIJVMU Q 01 JISMITH, Ho
was born at a small old parHonago house (supposed after-
wards to be haunted by the fairies, or good people of the
district, who could not howtiver tmvo it from being levelled
to the ground) in a lonely, remote, and almost inaccessible
Irish village on the southern banks of the river Inny, called
Pallas,* or PaJlasmore, the property of the Edgeworths of
Edgeworthstown, in the county of Longford, on the 10th of
November, 1788: a little more than three years earlier
than the date upon his opitaph.f Ilia father, the reverend

* Pallas is often written Ptillim*, nr Fallix, awl mmn» to have been no written "by
Goldsmith's father. ITlio iw, Mr. MwijcIJt Iwlievwl tlw latter to lw the proper
name, having aoun in it llliarhw (JuhlianithV JtiunJwritiiig. (Ptvrktw Window, i.)
So did the rov. Mr. (Ivuham, \vlrn «»jii«w«il Juiltxxl tbftt I>r, Johnimn, In writing
it Pallas, had (amply laid a traji fur the huskluwi iwul too oliwdcttl Wograpber who
afterwards tranBlatod the line of lim ejiititph, "in low 0wi nutnea IWliw," "at a
" place where Pa'lliw had mi her tmnia !" (Ami. Mag, x«, 620.

t The year of hw liirth \VM flwt oorreotly given 1st the Percy Mawtr (1 and
116), and in Mr. Hhaw Mawrm'n Wait fa-teal AwMni «• ParoeftM Swwy tjf Jrdeund^
iii. 3fi7; tat Mr. Prior aottlcd Uto ttnte of ih« m<mU) bj rtfemaea to the fly-leaf



	BOOK THE FIRST.

	CHAPTER I. -•4"- - SCHOOL DAYS AND HOLIDAYS. I72S—1740. THE marble in Westminster Abbey is correct in the place, 3728. but not in the tmin, of the birth of OIJVMU Q 01 JISMITH, Ho was born at a small old parHonago house (supposed after- wards to be haunted by the fairies, or good people of the district, who could not howtiver tmvo it from being levelled to the ground) in a lonely, remote, and almost inaccessible Irish village on the southern banks of the river Inny, called Pallas,* or PaJlasmore, the property of the Edgeworths of Edgeworthstown, in the county of Longford, on the 10th of November, 1788: a little more than three years earlier than the date upon his opitaph.f Ilia father, the reverend * Pallas is often written Ptillim, nr Fallix,* awl mmn» to have been no written *"by* Goldsmith's father. ITlio iw, Mr. MwijcIJt Iwlievwl tlw latter to lw the proper name, having aoun in it llliarhw (JuhlianithV JtiunJwritiiig. *(Ptvrktw Window,* i.) So did the rov. Mr. (Ivuham, \vlrn «»jii«w«il Juiltxxl tbftt I>r, Johnimn, In writing it Pallas, had (amply laid a traji fur the huskluwi iwul too oliwdcttl Wograpber who afterwards tranBlatod the line of lim ejiititph, "in low 0wi nutnea IWliw," "at a " place where Pa'lliw had mi her *tmnia !" (Ami. Mag,* x«, 620.** t The year of hw liirth \VM flwt oorreotly given 1st the Percy Mawtr (1 and 116), and in Mr. Hhaw Mawrm'n *Wait fa-teal* AwMni «• ParoeftM Swwy tjf Jrdeund^ iii. 3fi7; tat Mr. Prior aottlcd Uto ttnte of ih« m<mU) bj rtfemaea to the fly-leaf