THE A Movel. IN SIX VOLUMES. BY Medora Gordon MISS BYRON, AUTHOR OF THE ENGLISHWOMAN; HOURS OF AFFLUENCE My affections Are then most humble; I've no ambition VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED AT THE Minerva-Prels, FOR A. K. NEWMAN AND CO. LEADENHALL-STREET. 1812. English Stonehull 29704 THE ENGLISHMAN. CHAP. I. We love some men, we know not why. Our tenderness is naturally excited in all their concerns. We excuse their faults with the same indulgence, and approve their virtues with the same applause, with which we consider our own. CITIZEN OF THE WORLD. THIS spontaneous friendship is not more the offering of liberality than of humility. It is liberal to shew leniency to venial errors; while the least observing and earthspelled mortal of our sphere must internally acknowledge that perfection of character is a lusus naturæ, which does not often grace our sublunary state. VOL. I. To |