Excerpt from A Critical Examination of the Writings of Richard Cumberland, Esq., Vol. 2 of 2: With an Occasional Literary Inquiry Into the Age in Which He Lived, and the Contemporaries With Whom He Flourished C umberland's father had been translated to the see of Kilmore, and gained, by the exchange, a better house to live in, and a race of beings, some what more civilized, to control. The annual visits of his son had never been intermitted, and thus, perhaps, he found the wish nearest his heart amply gratified. But the decay of his bodily health became more and more visible to Cumberland, as each returning summer conveyed him to the pa ternal roof: and he saw this decay with foreboding thoughts, that were too soon verified. The unitbrm temperance of his father's life, left indeed every ground for hope which can be derived from the advantages of a constitution not debilitated by excesses: but the phenomena of life are reducible to no immutable laws; we sometimes see the man whose days have been but a round of debauch flourishing in a vigorous old age, while he whose temperate wishes never hurried him beyond the wholesome bounds of moderation, drops into the grave in comparative youth.

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