It is not needful to attend the end of life to see the imposition of it; it is enough to see the alterations while it lasts, to be assured that vain is all earthly greatness, if that of Heaven be not gained by it. JEREMY TAYLOR. All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth. SHELLEY'S Letters. We pass the first years of this life in the shades of ignorance, the succeeding ones in pain and labour, the latter part in grief and remorse, and the whole in error. PETRARCH. SAMUEL TINSLEY, 10, SOUTHAMPTON ST., STRAND. 1873. [All Rights of Translation and Reproduction reserved.] 2499 345. WEIMAR'S TRUST. CHAPTER I. All rising to great place is by a winding stair. BACON. For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, SAMUEL JOHNSON. I USE my prerogative to skip over a few years, and I leave to the imaginations of my kind readers the task of filling up the outlines, with which I shall furnish them, of the events that had passed in the interim. Mr. Melville had increased in prosperity, so far as outward show goeth; and gleaned, in return for the gold he lavished, golden VOL. II. B |