Man as He Is Not, or Hermsprong

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Of these, is democraticaljn its tendency. It was bed 'at a time when. Sentiments of that nature were prevale'nt'with a! Large class of people, and it was muc'h'jeatl. Has some strength of thought 5 but it is far from being a regularwork, or exhibiting a consistent character. Man as He Is has more of. Story, an more variety of character. Sir George Paradyne, the hero, is a dung man of fortune, with noble and generous fielings and of a philoso'hical but, being Man as he is, he is not a be entirely to resist the temptations of fortune and gav 0 pany, by'which he is drawn for a' time into a course of dissipation: from this he is rescued by the representations of his tutor and their; fluence of honourable love; his mistress,' who a, is a young lady of the most delicate feelings, res, fusing him her hand, though much his interior in fortune, till he is brought to a moressober} way of thinking. The character of Lady Paras-v dyne, his mother, a vain, selfish, fine lady, funnelr 3 of her son, but teasing him with lectures, is drawn with some hu'mour.' 'but the best sus tained character is that of Miss Carlill, a quaker, itfwhich the author has'exeeedingly wellhit ofl this~ acuteness and'presence'ot' mind, and cool-e tress in argument, by which the society sheia'i supposed to belong to are so much distinguished? In her dialogue with a'higli-church clergymanfi she is'made-=to have as much the better of'the'