AIDS TO REFLECTION IN THE FORMATION OF A MANLY CHARACTER ON THE SEVERAL GROUNDS OF PRUDENCE MORALITY AND RELIGION BY S. T. COLERIDGE NEW EDITION REVISED WITH A COPIOUS INDEX TO THE WORK, AND TRANSLATIONS OF BY THOMAS FENBY Liverpool EDWARD HOWELL MDCCCLXXIII 270. g. 490 R Οὕτως πάντα πρὸς ἑαυτὴν ἐπάγουσα, καὶ συνηθροισμένη ψυχὴ αὐτὴ εἰς αὑτὴν, ῥαΐστα καὶ μάλα βεβαίως μακαρίζεται. (Thus spirit bringing all things to itself, and being itself collected into itself, is most easily and most surely made happy.) MARINUS. Omnis divinæ atque humanæ eruditionis elementa tria, NOSSE, VELLE, POSSE: quorum principium unum MENS, sive SPIRITUS; cujus Oculus est RATIO; cui lumen præbet DEUS. Vita di G. B. Vico, p. 50. (Of all divine and human learning there are three elements, Knowledge, Intention, Power; of which there is one moving principle, Mind or Spirit; whose eye is Reason; whose light is from God.) PREFATORY NOTE. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, the author of the following work, was born on the 20th of October, 1772, at the parish of Ottery St. Mary, in the County of Devon, where his father held the vicarage. His early education he received at Christ's Hospital, where Charles Lamb was one of his schoolfellows. Up to his fourteenth year, he describes himself as a "playless day-dreamer;" but a stranger who met him in London, and was struck by his conversation, made him a member of a circulating library there, in which, as a reader, he acquired an ample stock of literary information. Attracted by the subjects of poetry and metaphysics (a love of the former being aroused by a perusal of Bowles's sonnets), he pursued the study of these two branches of literature, and afterwards became highly distinguished in both. His chief works indeed are poetical, metaphysical, or both together. In 1791, having obtained his presentation from Christ's Hospital, he entered Jesus College, Cambridge, being then nineteen years of age. At college he appeared to possess little mathematical |