Sir Thomas More: OR, COLLOQUIES ON THE PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF SOCIETY. BY ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq., LL.D. HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY, OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY OF HISTORY, OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, OF THE BRISTOL PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY SOCIETY, OF THE METROPOLITAN RESPICE, ASPICE, PROSPICE.—ST. BERNARD. WITH PLATES. THE SECOND EDITION, IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. MDCCCXXXI. Ἢ ζητῶ ἀνθρώποις ἀρέσκειν.—GALATIANS I. 10. Ωστε ἐχθρὸς ὑμῶν γέγονα ἀληθεύων ὑμῖν.—GALATIANS IV. 16. Bayerische LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES, Stamford Street. DEDICATION. TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVEREND HERBERT HILL, Formerly Student of Christ Church, Oxford: successively Chaplain to the British Factories at Porto and at Lisbon; and late Rector of Streatham; who was released from this life, Sept. 19, 1828, in the 80th year of his age. Nor upon marble or sepulchral brass Have I the record of thy worth inscribed, Dear Uncle! nor from Chantrey's chisel ask'd A monumental statue, which might wear Thro' many an age thy venerable form. Its deep and inmost sense. But what I can Before thy birth by Holbein's happy hand Prefigured thus. It is the portraiture |