“ Some lives retired in deserts, and some among mountains, as the people in Borrowdale, almost excluded from the terestrial world, because they dwell in the bleu regions, astonishing to behold; some of t (illegible text) seems to touch the very clouds. Some lives in mountains of snow, and others among shoals of ice; some are forced to shelter under the wide canopy of heaven exposed to all the inclemency of the wether: some wander in foreign regions, friendless and harbourless deplorably situated in smoky houses, covered soot and nastiness ”

“ And if you do not use your riches on earth, you cannot get the use of them in heaven; a place where money will not buy. So I well may call some of yon crazy bodies, and well I may say some of you is destroyed for lack of knowledge, and some of you are not half wise; and I often have heard of the gouks of Borrowdale, and they may be compared to the cookoo, crying in the fields, for they are so brutish and ignorant. ”

“ But the time it will come, when from your, riches you must die, and leave them behind you, and it certainly and shortly will come, when you all must cease from your tale; when your luxurious great ones in Borrowdale shall no more tread down the poor ones to the ground, and the time it will come, when there will be no respect of persons with God ”

“ And as for Theology, and its rules or matters, when into it you are examined, you are either dumb, or return such answers as you may be compared to cocks and hens’, without religion altogether, and you seem to be deranged, and if you do not in time seek God, for his grace, and prayer, you cannot expect to prosper, either in this world, or that which is to come. ”

“ You have nothing but its name: you are not what you pretend to be. ⁠At the best you are but pilgrims and strangers on the earth, and Oh, what ups and downs is in your life-time. ⁠You are on this poor but transcendant world; you are but strangers from the cradle to the grave, to which all of you are approaching: and it is a place where the worm dieth no:no:, neither will the fir be quenched, and to it we are all going, and it is the place or the house appointed for all living. ”

“ They are situated on a rising ground, and Borrowdale is a most pleasant rountry in summer, but it is most horrible in winter; and at it lives a most careless set of people. They care not what they either say or do. ”

“ And all your promiscuous multitude of you will be bundled together, and all erudition, with-out any rank or seniority, must come to a retirement, and suppose some of you people in Borrow dale domi neer or tyranize over a stranger, yet the time it will come, when you will get no more but the breadth of your backs. ”

“ Demosthenes, or the pens of these brave and n (illegible text) (illegible text) man poets and historians, as Virgil, Horace, Catullus, Ovid, Juvinal, Sallust, Plato, Tullus, Cicero, Tacitus, Pliny, Justin, Diogoros, Quintus, Curtius, Pythagorus, Atticus, Herodotus, Tasso, Ausanius, Theodosius, Terence, Erasmus, Seaton, Cæsar’s commentary, and my own countrymen, the Spanish poet and historian, Lucius, and Floras; or the golden pen that most famous Roman poet and historian, Livy; are (illegible text) classical authors ”