ANECDOTES, MEMOIRS, ALLEGORIES, ESSAY S, AND POETICAL FRAGMENTS, TENDING TO AMUSE THE FANCY, AND INCULCATE MORALITY. BY MR. ADDISON. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. 1794. 824 (8-1.0.-) A COLLECTION O F INTERESTING Anecdotes, Memoirs, &c. HONESTY THE BEST POLICY, EXEMPLIFIED IN AN Anecdote of a Country Curate. SOME years fince refided in a country village, a poor, but worthy Clergyman; who, with a fmall ftipend of forty pounds a year, supported himself, a wife, and feven children. It's true, that he had a garden, which he cultivated with his own hands, and, by his induftry, it afforded them vegetables for their table. He likewise had a cow, which, by the affiftance of his wife, fupplied them all with a plentiful morning's repaft; for tea was wholly banished from their frugal board. . |