THE

MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE;

OR,

THE GROANS OF TIMOTHY TESTY

AND SAMUEL SENSITIVE;

WITH A FEW SUPPLEMENTARY

SIGHS FROM MRS. TESTY.

TO WHICH ARE NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, ADDED,
POSTHUMOUS GROANS.

P. WRIGHT AND SON,

45, BROAD STREET, BLOOMSBURY.

1826.

Harvard College Library

Howe Juand

September 7, 1951

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY APR 20 1955

51X12

Howlett and Brimmer, Printers,
10, Frith Street, Soho.

TO THE MISERABLE.

CHILDREN of misfortune, wheresoever found, and whatsoever enduring,-ye who, arro-gating to yourselves a kind of sovereignty in suffering, maintain, that all the throbs of torture, all the pungency of sorrow, all the bitterness of desperation, are your own-who are so torn and spent with the storms and struggles of mortality, as to faint, or freeze, even at the personation of those ruined Wretches, whose Stories wash the stage of tragedy with tears and blood-approach a more disastrous scene! Take courage to behold a Pageant of calamities, which calls you to renounce your sad monopoly. Dispassionately ponder all your worst of woes, in turn with these; then hasten to distil from the comparison an opiate for your fiercest