The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    my life were the facrifice to it, my friends might think they did a popular aft in putting my family at leaft beyond the reach of nece fifty, which I myfelf began to defpair of doing. And tho5 I difclaim all pretence to that Spartan or Roman patriotifm, which loved the public fo well that it was always ready to become a voluntary facrifice to the public good, I do folemnly declare I have that love for my family. After this conceffion therefore, that the public was not the principal Deity to which my life was offered a facrifice, and when it is farther confix dered what a poor facrifice this was, be¬ ing indeed no other than the giving up what I faw little likelihood of being able to hold much longer, and which, npon the terms I held it, nothing but the weaknefs of human nature could reprefent to me as worth holding at all; the world may, I believe, without envy, allow me all the praife to which I have any title. 5