He, therefore, detached himself from their parties as much as he
could, without giving offence to those among whom he was obliged
to live, and resumed his labours with incredible eagerness and
perseverance, his spirits being supported by the success of some
severe philippics, which he occasionally published against the
author of his misfortune.
Nor was his humanity unemployed in the vacations of his revenge.
A man must be void of all sympathy and compassion, who can reside
among so many miserable objects, without feeling an inclination
to relieve their distress. Every day almost presented to his view
such lamentable scenes as were most likely to attract his notice,
and engage his benevolence. Reverses of fortune, attended with the
most deplorable circumstances of domestic woe, were continually
intruding upon his acquaintance; his ears were invaded with the
cries of the hapless wife, who, from the enjoyment of affluence
and pleasure, was forced to follow her husband to this abode of
wretchedness and want; his eyes were every minute assailed with
the naked and meagre appearances of hunger and cold; and his fancy
teemed with a thousand aggravations of their misery.
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