MOORIANA:

OR,

SELECTIONS

FROM THE

Moral, Philosophical, and Miscellaneous Works

Of the late

DR. JOHN MOORE.

ILLUSTRATED BY

A New Biographical and Critical Account

OF THE

DOCTOR AND HIS WRITINGS;

AND

NOTES,

Historical, Classical, and Explanatory,

BY

THE REV. F. PREVOST, AND F. BLAGDON, Esq.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

"Floriferis ut apes in saltibus mellia libant.
"Sic nos autorum decerpimus aurea dicta."

London:

Printed by J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane,

FOR B. CROSBY AND CO. STATIONERS'-COURT.

1803.

MOORIANA.

ABSOLUTION AND EXTREME UNCTION.

ANEGRO slave, having allowed symptoms of compassion, perhaps of indignation, to escape from him, on hearing one of his brother-slaves ordered to be punished unjustly, his tyrannical master, in a transport of rage, ordered him to be lashed severely, and renewed the punishment at legal intervals so often, that the poor man was thrown into a languishing disease, which confined him constantly to his bed.

An Irish soldier, who had been long acquainted with the negro, and had a particular esteem for him, as soon as he heard of his dangerous situation, hastened to see him, carried him wine and other refreshments, and continued to visit and comfort him during his languishing illness. Perceiving at last, that there was no hope of his recovery, he thought the last and best good office he could do him, was to carry a priest, to give him absolution and the extreme unction.