PREFERMENT:

OR,

MY UNCLE THE EARL.

That man, though in rags, who is capable of deceiving indolence into wisdom, and
who, while professing to amuse, aims at reformation, is more useful to society than
twenty cardinals in all their scarlet, tricked out with the fopperies of scholastic
finery.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

LONDON:

JAMES BLACKWOOD, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1857.

249.3.627.

BIET

PREFERMENT:

OR,

MY UNCLE THE EARL.