A removal.--An appeal--Irish schools--Literary labors--Antinomianism--
Conclusion

SUBSEQUENT LIFE AND DEATH OF THE AUTHOR





PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS




LETTER I.

CHILDHOOD.


I have given my best consideration to the arguments by which you support
the demand for a few notices of events connected with my personal
recollections of the past. That which has chiefly influenced me is the
consideration, urged on what I know to be just and reasonable grounds,
that when it has pleased God to bring any one before the public in the
capacity of an author, that person becomes in some sense public
property; having abandoned the privacy from which no one ought to be
forced, but which any body may relinquish; and courted the observation
of the world at large. Such individuals are talked of during life, and
after death become the subject, I may say the prey, of that spirit which