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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...argument, judicious reasoning and nervous language. His exculpation of the political character of Franklin, --his remarks on the French revolution, --his addresses to the members of the Academy of Fine Arts, --and his various political, literary, and scientific essays, --all portray the extent of his knowledge, and the soundness of his understanding. Mr. Clymer was a man of irreproachable morals, and a pure heart. Possessed of all the generous and social virtues, his benevolence was extensive but discriminating. In the family circle, and in friendly intercourse, he appeared to peculiar advantage, when the ardour of his affections, and his warmth of feeling, were not restrained by the difildence which avoided their public display. His sensibility was most acute: the death of his eldest son, about the beginning of the revolution, for a long time embittered his existence, and the loss of another, during the expedition against the insurgents in the western parts of Pennsylvania, occasioned a shock so lasting and severe, that his appointment on the mission to Georgia is supposed to have been conferred by the executive, with the view of dissipating his sorrow. With a purity of morals upon which calumny itself had never sought to cast a blemish, he possessed a singular idea of the bonds which generally confine mankind within the bounds of morality. He believed that it was more a sense of honour, than the moral sense, which guarded against the commission of bad actions, because, under circumstances where actions intrinsically bad may be committed without impeachment of honour, or according to custom or public sanction, Voi. Ill B b ' f they are very readily adopted. He advances two examples in support of this opinion. 1. A merchant in Philadelphia draws upon a correspo...

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