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Title: A Description of Millenium Hall
And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue
Author: Sarah Scott
Release Date: July 13, 2008 [eBook #26050]
Language: English
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A DESCRIPTION OF MILLENIUM HALL
AND THE COUNTRY ADJACENT
Together with the
CHARACTERS OF THE INHABITANTS
And such Historical
ANECDOTES AND REFLECTIONS
AS
May excite in the READER proper Sentiments of Humanity,
and lead the Mind to the Love of
VIRTUE
BY
'A GENTLEMAN
ON HIS TRAVELS'
SARAH SCOTT
Based on a reprint of the edition
published in Great Britain
by J. Newbury, 1762
A DESCRIPTION OF MILLENIUM HALL
Dear Sir,
Though, when I left London, I promised to write to you as soon as I had
reached my northern retreat, yet, I believe, you little expected instead
of a letter to receive a volume; but I should not stand excused to
myself, were I to fail communicating to you the pleasure I received in
my road hither, from the sight of a society whose acquaintance I owe to
one of those fortunate, though in appearance trifling, accidents, from
which sometimes arise the most pleasing circumstances of our lives; for
as such I must ever esteem the acquaintance of that amiable family, who
have fixed their abode at a place which I shall nominate Millenium Hall,
as the best adapted to the lives of the inhabitants, and to avoid giving
the real name, fearing to offend that modesty which has induced them to
conceal their virtues in retirement.
In giving you a very circumstantial account of this society, I confess I
have a view beyond the pleasure which a mind like yours must receive
from the contemplation of so much virtue. Y
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