tor of five DD's, as dissimulation, deposing of princes, disposing of kingdoms, daunting and deterring of subjects, and destruction." PROGERS, who had been about the person of Charles the Second, died at ninety-six in cutting his teeth; he had cut four, and many others were coming, which so inflamed his gums, that it proved fatal. THE Romans when travelling from home recommended themselves to the goddess Abeona; when returning, to Adeona; when resting, to Statilinus; when weary, to Fes sonia. GRUNDULES. Lares of the pigsty, appointed by Romulus in honour of a sow who ST. BARBARA a saint for the mountains. had thirty pigs at one litter. St. Agatha for the vales. “THERE's no making a whistle of a pig's tail."-SHADWELL. Squire of Alsatia. "THE most solemn act of worship performed to the Syrian Baal by his ordinary devotees, was to break wind and ease themselves at the foot of his image."-SKELTON'S Deism Revealed. AN odd notion that "The greatest heads and smallest eke were wont To bear in them the finest wits away; (qy. alway.) This thing is true, thou can'st it not de- HIGGINS, Mirror for Magistrates, "GELDINGS, with their goddess Epona, are objects of admiration to you."-TERTULLIAN'S Apology. “Alhahor it seems is the name of heaven's fierce dog."— M. Magazine, vol. 3, p. 819. "JAQUES GOHORY disoit que ce qu'il avoit traduit du Roman d'Amadis passeroit un joir pour aussi veritable que l'histoire de Paul Jove."-BAILLET, vol. 2, p. 319. TAKE then the book to thy pocket, the doctor to thy heart, Nobs for thy hobbyhorse, and M. Urgandus, the unknown, for thy guide, philosopher, and friend. TELLIAMED theory. "ANTIPHERON, one who," Aristotle says, "met with himself, and saw his own image before him wherever he went." ASPENDIUS, a harper, who would finger the harp so lightly, that none could hear it but himself. HE goat, dog wolf, buck rabbit, Jack hare. Ir was a comfort to the doctor, that the relative to whom his paternal estate would pass was named Lamb. Sapientia, the ancients connected wisdom with taste.-See VAN HELMONT, p. 737. ABERNETHY says 66 nature seems to have formed animals to live and enjoy health upon a scanty and precarious supply of | food;" and argues that men produce diseases by the repletion to which their tables WHEN a Venetian ambassador, endeavouring to dissuade Louis XII. from making war upon Venice, spoke of the wisdom of that republic, Louis replied, “J'opposerai un si grand nombre de fous à vos sages, que toute leur sagesse sera incapable de leur résister. Note to M. DU BELLAY, from FERRON. THE proprietor of the Imperial Magazine assures the public "that its type and paper will not shrink from the most rigorous inspection." "As the strokes in music answer the notes that are prickt in the rules, so the words of the mouth answer to the motions and affections of the heart. The anatomists teach that the heart and tongue hang upon one string. And hence it is, that as in a clock or watch, when the first wheel is moved, the hammer striketh, so when the heart is moved with any passion or perturbation, the hammer beats upon the bell, and the mouth sounds."-FEATLEY. Clavis Mystica. p. 867. A WOMAN named Nanny Wilkey, seventy years of age, living in St. James's-street, having at different times been afflicted with inflammation, was told that if she carried about her person a coffin ring1 which had been dug up from a grave, it would prevent dame, placing the fullest reliance on the a recurrence of her complaint. The old charm, has carried a ring of that description for the last five years, during which time she has been free from her old complaint. "A corrected pigeon (let blood under both wings) is both pleasant and wholesome nourishment."-FULLER'S Worthies, vol. ii. p. 158. The rings and screws of coffins have been supposed to possess virtue from PLINY's time to our own, who tells that " prodest præfixisse in limine è sepulchro avulsos clavos adversus nocturnas lymphationes," lib. xxxiv. c. 15. J. W. W. "ABOUT Sixteen years ago, I met, on the banks of the Danube, with a work in four volumes, entitled, "L'Art de la Guerre," by a Colonel Faesch, a Saxon officer. The author like every other German collector, had culled his treatise from all the books that had been written upon the subject; and he had the honesty to name them. I was forcibly struck with one passage, in which he sums up the qualities of a good officer, and which the present subject has recalled to my recollection. He says that an able officer ought to be a sound mathematician, a good lawyer, an acute surgeon, an excellent historian, a good judge of beef, pork, and mutton, and a sound divine! Although his ingredients of an officer combine much taste with science, I will not go so far as to assert that all these qualifications are necessary to a British, however proper they may be to a German officer. But I will venture to affirm, that an uninstructed lad of sixteen years of age, whose mind is incapable of commanding himself, is not fit to command others." “M. Antonius, Triumvir, corporis excrementa non nisi vasis aureis excipiebat." -TEXTOR. Pref. ad Cornucopiam. | Nash, of Bath, to the ringers of the abbey He loved Erasmus, because Erasmus, writing to Daniel Benedictus of Milan, says to him, "Dictus est Daniel vir desideriorum, quid itaque mirum si desiderius Deside- amatory labours, without enveloping himrium desideras ?"—Ep. p. 908. TAMERLANE used to boast that he was descended from the tribe of Dan."-R. B. Mem. Remarks concerning the Jews, p. 29. "BA-BA, black sheep, have you any wool ?" Applied to a wicked book, from which some good may be extracted. THE report of an Irish society tells us that Lord Chesterfield's Letters are often met with among the books used in the low Irish schools. Munster is the part spoken of. Lud. "ARE his wits safe? is he not light of brain ?" Iago. "He is, that he is :What he might be,—if what he might, he is not, "OF TWO EVILS CHOOSE THE LEAST.—' -The I would to Heaven he were!" following singular bequest, made by Thomas Othello, act iv. sc. 1. IMITATIVE talent is, I believe, as comWhen mon, as creative genius is rare. Columbus had once broken the egg, there were plenty of gentlemen who could all do it. The imitative poems, good in their kind, which are continually produced by persons incapable of producing any thing good of their own, prove this. Thus too we have mimics, who can personify the best actors, but would be utterly incapable of acting any one of their parts. Avellaneda's Don Quixote is perhaps the best example of a good imitative work ;—as to conception I mean, for what the style may be, I have no means of judging, never having seen the original. It shows also what not unfrequently accompanies this talent, a base mind, a low vile envious desire of depreciating his original; having beyond all doubt its root in a consciousness of inferiority, and an ambition with no worth to support it. Lord Byron is another instance of this. It is very much to the credit of the Spaniards that Avellaneda's talents have not in any degree saved him from the disgraceful fame that he deserves. TOMFOOLITES, or Noodelitarians. THE new press gang. A black fellow, who had been in the Mr. Fisher's cow. And my opinion of the guards. man who kept his cow. An old waterman. Smearing them with printer's ink, and tossing them in wet sheets. OLD Cob, sometimes called the sergeant, and sometimes the bone-stealer, having once been engaged in the resurrection trade, is now, in consequence, employed as bully in the house of an infamous old woman, well known by the name of Mother Scarlet. THE Jerry Bedlamites. These fellows have the same sort of dislike to black that bulls have to scarlet. COLBURNE'S gang, who go about with bel lowses. |