66 reading memorandums. . Sept. 11. 
Now Sir, could I meet with a set of fanatics, my 
long lanthern-jaws would accord very well with the 
character I fhould there have~to act. But the mise- 
ry is, that nature has thrown into my countenance 
such a dah of facetious humour, that I cannot for 
my life afsume these hypocritical grimaces for two 
minutes together ; so that here also I fhould be foil- 
ed. The upfhot of the whole is, that I suspect I am 
not one of the men who have ** found out many in- 
ventions” tomake money; so that I fear I must remain - 
even as God made me, upright and poor to the end 
of the chapter: and IJ much doubt I fhall never visit 
the land of promise, which overfloweth with milk 
and honey ; nor have! any ambition to visit Botany 
Bay ; so that for aught I can see, I must even re-~ 
main as I began - d 
c ~ 
eee, A ‘Poor DomINeE. 
Aug. 20+ 1793. : 
\ - READING MEMORAND UMS. 
Let us give up our fig leaved theories, and betake 
ourselves to the continuation of the experimental 
system of the great Roger Bacon, and his mote for- 
tunate succefsor the lord of Verulam. 
The result of this noble and satisfactory system 
will be the increase of human happinefs, and the 
confefsion of every reasonable soul, that to be\busy, © 
and useful, and virtuous, and pious, is to be happy . 
and truly beneficial to society, for which we were — 
originally intended by our bountiful, Creator. | 
