A brief account of the Hospital of St. Elisabeth annexed to the Imperial Monastery of St. Maximin, of the Electorate of Treves. Translated from the Latin [of 'Historia succincta Hospitalis St. Elisabethae']. With notes, and miscellaneous observations.

Date:
1786
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Credit: A brief account of the Hospital of St. Elisabeth annexed to the Imperial Monastery of St. Maximin, of the Electorate of Treves. Translated from the Latin [of 'Historia succincta Hospitalis St. Elisabethae']. With notes, and miscellaneous observations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 11° ] I have been favored with a contrail to the laft charac- ter: the reader of Englijh poetry will perceive it to be a parody of a very celebrated paffage. For my own idea of the fubjedl, it is a very fimple and often repeated one.— That the true happinefs of a focial being is to be fought in the moil expanlive energies of a focial character; with all its proper fatisfadtions; and even its cares. And that neither the Abbot nor the Abbefs if they are good enough to bear folitude, are fo beneficial to it in their monaftic date, as they might have been in a more natural, and, confequent- iy, happier plan of life. 45 JVha T bkjjings on the humble Abbot wait Above proud Monarchs in their anxious Jiate; He leaves a world which fmgs felf-fiattering fongsy Whofe [miles are finares, whoje benefits are wrongs 5 To hold with God, among the firfit-born race, Perpetual intercourfie of praifie and grace: Welcome as morning to the wanderer s fight, Pure as the filver Jlreams of lunar light. Doubt fiolves her veil, and Zeal her lamp fiuppliest At joys immortal fparkling in his eyes; With holy prayer Heaven s portals he unbars, And ever watches like the unweariedJiars. Alms are his hoardy from moth and rufi fie cur ey His brrethren are the faithful and the poor: His