THE END.
[1] See Herbert's Country Parson, under the heads of the parson in his house, the parson praying, the parson preaching, the parson comforting, the parson's church, the parson catechizing, the parson in mirth, &c., &c. The term parson has now indeed a vulgar and disrespectful sound, but in Herbert's time it was used in its true sense persona ecclesiæ. I would recommend to those who have not seen it, this sketch of the ancient clerical life. As Mr. Herbert was a man of quality, he knew what became the more opulent of his function; as he was eminently pious, he practiced all that he recommended. "This appellation of parson," says Judge Blackstone, "however depreciated by clownish and familiar use, is the most legal, most beneficial, and most honorable title, which a parish priest can enjoy." Vide Blackstone's Commentaries.
[2] Nil actum reputans dum quod superesset agendum. Lucan.
[3] Frederic the Great, king of Prussia.
[4] See an ingenious little treatise entitled Latium Redivivum, or the modern use of the Latin language, and the prevalence of the French.
[5] See this whole beautiful passage in Cicero de Senectute
[6] Horace, in speaking of the brevity and uncertainty of life, seldom fails to produce it as an incentive to sensual indulgence. See particularly the fourth and eleventh Odes of the first book.