blameless
demeanor, the long, patient suffering of these respectable men.
Thrown on a sudden into a foreign country, differing from theirs in
religion, language, manners, and habits, the uniform tenor of their
pious and unoffending lives procured them universal respect and
good-will. The country that received them has been favored. In the
midst of the public and private calamity which almost every nation
has experienced, Providence has crowned her with glory and honor;
peace has dwelt in her palaces, plenty within her wells; every
climate has been tributary to her commerce, every sea has been
witness of her victories."
2. Our author was a great admirer of the writings of Abraham Woodhead:
he purchased his manuscripts, and, by his will, bequeathed them to
the English College at Douay. Mr. Woodhead is one of the writers to
whom the celebrated _Whole Duty of Man_ has been attributed. On that
subject the editor is in possession of the following note in our
author's handwriting: "Mr. Simon Berrington, who died in 1758,
endeavored to give Mr. Woodhead the honor of being the author of the
Whole Duty of Man, and other works of the same kind; but there is a
difference of style between them,--there occurring in the Whole Duty
of Man, and the other works of that author, scarce any parentheses,
with which all Mr. Woodhead's works abound. Nevertheless, certain it
is that Dr. John Pell, dean of Christ Church, (afterwards bishop of
Oxford,) who published the other works of the author of the Whole
Duty of Man, namely, the Ladies' Calling, the Art of Contentment,
the Government of the Tongue, the Lively Oracles given unto us, &c.,
in folio, at Oxford, in 1675-78, and wrote the preface which he
prefixed to this edition, and who was the only person then living
who knew the author of the Whole Duty of Man, gave this book of the
Whole Duty of Man to his bookbinder, and Hawkins, his bookseller in
London, with other pieces of Mr. Woodhead's, and ordered Mr.
Woodhead's name to be added to the title of this, as well as of the
other works which he gave to be bound. If Mr. Woodhead wrote that
celebrated work, it was before he travelled abroad, or had any
thoughts of embracing the Catholic faith." The same anecdote has
been mentioned to the editor by the late Mr. Challoner.

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Some time after our author's