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England, Sane S That what is bred in the bone
will not go out of the flesh,” was never more veri-
fied than in the story of my life. Any one would
think that after thirty-five years’ affliction and a
variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men,
i/ if any, ever went through before, and after near
= £ seven years of peace and enjoyment in the fulness

“© SS of all things, grown old and when, if ever, it
might be allowed me to have had experience of every state of
middle life, and to know which was most adapted to make a man

   

completely happy: I say, after all this, any one would have thought
that the native propensity to rambling, which I gave an account of
in my first setting out into the world to have been so predominant
in my thoughts, should be worn out, the volatile part be fully
evacuated, or at least condensed, and I might at sixty-one years
of age have been a little inclined to stay at home, and have done
venturing life and fortune any more.

Nay, further, the common motive of foreign adventures was taken
away in me; for I had no fortune to make, I had nothing to seek.
If I had gained ten thousand pound, I had been no richer; for I had
already sufficient for me, and for those I had to leave it to: and that