naged officer of yours has, to my knowledge, been the ruin of above five young gentlemen besides myself, and still goes on laying waste wheresoever she comes, whereby the whole village is in great danger. Our humble request is therefore, that this bold Amazon be ordered immediately to lay down her arms, or that you would issue forth an order, that we who have been thus injured may meet at the place of general rendezvous, and there be taught to manage our snuff-boxes, in such a manner as we may be an equal match for her; "And your petitioner shall ever pray," &c. R. No. 135.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1711. I HAVE Somewhere read of an eminent person, who used in his private offices of devotion to give thanks to Heaven that he was born a Frenchman: for my own part, I look upon it as a peculiar blessing that I was born an Englishman. Among many other reasons, I think myself very happy in my country, as the language of it is wonderfully adapted to a man who is sparing of his words, and an enemy to loquacity. guage, by closing in one syllable the termination of our preterperfect tense, as in these words, drown'd, walk'd, arriv'd," for "drowned, walked, arrived,”, which has very much disfigured the tongue, and turned a tenth part of our smoothest words into sa many clusters of consonants. This is the more remarkable, because the want of vowels in our language has been the general complaint of our politest authors, who nevertheless are the men that have made these retrenchments, and consequently very much increased our former scarcity. This reflection on the words that end in ED, I have heard in conversation from one of the greatest geniuses this age has produced. I think we may add to the foregoing observation, the change which has happened in our language, by the abbreviation of several words that are terminated in "eth," by substituting an s in the room of the last syllable, as in "drowns, walks, arrives," and innumerable other words, which in the pronunciation of our forefathers were "drowneth, walketh, arriveth." This has wonderfully multiplied a letter which was before too frequent in the English tongue, and added to that hissing in our language, which is taken so much notice of by foreigners; but at the same time hamours our taciturnity, and eases us of many superfluous syllables. I might here observe, that the same single letter on many occasions does the office of a whole word, and represents the "his" and "her" of our forefathers. There is no doubt but the ear of a foreigner, which is the best judge in this case, would very much disapprove of such innovations, which indeed we do ourselves in some measure, by retaining the old termination in writing, and in all solemn offices of our religion. As I have frequently reflected on my good fortune in this particular, I shall communicate to the public my speculations on the English tongue, not doubting but they will be acceptable to all my curious readers. The English delight in silence more than any other European nation, if the remarks which are made on us by foreigners are true. Our discourse is not kept up in conversation, but falls into more pauses and intervals than in our neighbouring countries; as it is observed, that the matter of our writings is thrown As in the instances I have given we have epitomuch closer together, and lies in a narrower com-mized many of our particular words to the detriment pass than is usual in the works of foreign authors; of our tongue, so on other occasions we have drawn for, to favour our natural taciturnity, when we are two words into one, which has likewise very much obliged to utter our thoughts, we do it in the shortest untuned our language, and clogged it with consoway we are able, and give as quick a birth to our nants-as "mayn't, can't, shan't, won't," and the conceptions as possible. like, for "may not, cannot, shall not, will not," &c. This humour shews itself in several remarks that we may make upon the English language. As first of all by its abounding in monosyllables, which gives us an opportunity of delivering our thoughts in few sounds. This indeed takes off from the elegance of our tongue, but at the same time expresses our ideas in the readiest manner, and consequently answers the first design of speech better than the multitude of syllables, which makes the words of other languages more tuneable and sonorous. The sounds of our English words are commonly like those of string-music, short and transient, which rise and perish upon a single touch; those of other languages are like the notes of wind-instruments, sweet and swelling, and lengthened out into a variety of modulation. In the next place we may observe, that where the words are not monosyllables, we often make them so, so much as lies in our power, by our rapidity of pronunciation; as it generally happens in most of our long words which are derived from the Latin, where we contract the length of the syllables that gives them a grave and solemn air in their own language, to make them more proper for dispatch, and more conformable to the genius of our tongue. This we may find in a multitude of words, as "liberty, conspiracy, theatre, orator," &c. It is perhaps this humour of speaking no more than we needs must, which has so miserably curtailed some of our words, that in familiar writings and conversations they often lose all but their first syllables, as in "mob, rep. pos. incog." and the like; and as all ridiculous words make their first entry into a language by familiar phrases, I dare not answer for these, that they will not in time be looked upon as a part of our tongue. We see some of our poets have been so indiscreet as to imitate Hudibras's doggrel expressions in their serious compositions, by throwing out the signs of our substantives which are essential to the English language. Nay, this humour of shortening our language had once run so far, that some of our celebrated authors, among whom we may reckon Sir Roger L'Estrange in particular, began to prune their words of all su perfluous letters, as they termed them, in order to adjust the spelling to the pronunciation; which would have confounded all our etymologies, and have quite destroyed our tongue. We may here likewise observe, that our proper names, when familiarized in English, generally dwindle to monosyllables, whereas in other modern languages they receive a softer turn on this occasion, by the addition of a new syllable.-Nick in Italian The same natural aversion to loquacity has of late observation in his proposal for correcting, improving, and ascer This was probably Dean Swift, who has made the same years made a very considerable alteration in our lan-taining the English tongue, &c. See Swift's Works. is Nicolini: Jack in French Jeannot; and so of the rest. There is another particular in our language which is a great instance of our frugality of words, and that is, the suppressing of several particles which must be produced in other tongues to make a sentence intelligible. This perplexes the best writers, when they find the relatives whom, which,' or they, at their mercy, whether they may have admission or not; and will never be decided until we have something like an academy, that by the best authorities and rules drawn from the analogy of languages shall settle all controversies between gram mar and idiom. I have only considered our language as it shews the genius and natural temper of the English, which is modest, thoughtful, and sincere, and which, perhaps, may recommend the people, though it has spoiled the tongue. We might, perhaps, carry the same thought into other languages, and deduce a great part of what is peculiar to them from the genius of the people who speak them. It is certain, the light talkative humour of the French has not a little infected their tongue, which might be shewn by many instances; as the genius of the Italians, which is so much addicted to music and ceremony, has moulded all their words and phrases to those particular uses. The stateliness and gravity of the Spaniards shews itself to perfection in the solemnity of their language; and the blunt honest humour of the German sounds better in the roughness of the High-Dutch, than it would in a politer tongue.-C. No. 136. MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1711. A greater liar Parthia never bred. of the day; besides this, he had at last the good fortune to be the man who took Count Piper. With all this fire I knew my cousin to be the civilest creature in the world. He never made any impertinent show of his valour, and then he had an excellent genius for the world in every other kind. I had letters from him (here I felt in my pockets) that exactly spoke the Czar's character, which I knew perfectly well; and I could not forbear concluding, that I lay with his imperial majesty twice or thrice a week all the while he lodged at Deptford.+ What is worse than all this, it is impossible to speak to me but you give me some occasion of coming out with one lie or other, that has neither wit, humour, pros-, pect of interest, or any other motive that I can think of in nature. The other day, when one was commending an eminent and learned divine, what occasion in the world had I to say, Methinks he would look more venerable if he were not so fair a man?' I remember the company smiled. I have seen the gentleman since, and he is coal black. I have intimations every day in my life that nobody believes me, yet I am never the better. I was saying something the other day to an old friend at Will's coffeehouse, and he made me no manner of answer; but told me that an acquaintance of Tully the orator having two or three times together said to him, without receiving any answer, that upon his honour he was but that very month forty years of age,' Tully answered, 'Surely you think me the most incredulous man in the world, if I do not believe what you have told me every day these ten years.' The mischief of it is, I find myself wonderfully inclined to have been present at every occurrence that is spoken of before me; this had led me into many inconveniences, but indeed they have been the fewer, because I am no ill-natured man, and never speak ACCORDING to the request of this strange fellow, I things to any man's disadvantage. I never directly shall print the following letter: 186 MH. SPECTATOR, defame, but I do what is as bad in the consequence, for I have often made a man say such and such a "I shall without any manner of preface or apology lively expression, who was born a mere elder brother. aquaint you, that I am, and ever have been, from When one has said in my hearing, such a one is no my youth upward, one of the greatest liars this island wiser than he should be,' I immediately have rehas produced. I have read all the moralists upon plied, 'Now 'faith, I cannot see that; he said a the subject, but could never find any effect their dis- very good thing to my lord such-a-one, upon such an courses had upon me, but to add to my misfortune occasion,' and the like. Such an honest dolt as this by new thoughts and ideas, and making me more has been watched in every expression he uttered, ready in my language, and capable of sometimes upon my recommendation of him, and consequently mixing seeming truths with my improbabilities. been subject to the more ridicule. I once endeaWith this strong passion towards falsehood in this voured to cure myself of this impertinent quality, kind, there does not live an honester man, or a and resolved to hold my tongue for seven days to sincerer friend; but my imagination runs away with gether; I did so; but then I had so many winks and me; and whatever is started, I have such a scene of unnecessary distortions of my face upon what any adventures appear in an instant before me, that I body else said, that I found I only forbore the excannot help uttering them, though, to my immediate pression, and that I still lied in my heart to every confusion, I cannot but know I am liable to be de-man I met with. You are to know one thing (which tected by the first man I meet. Upon occasion of the mention of the battle of Paltowa, I could not forbear giving an account of skinsman of mine, a young merchant who was bred at Moscow, that had too much mettle to attend books of entries and accounts, when there was so active a scene in the country where he resided, and followed the Czar as a volunteer. This warm youth (born at the instant the thing was spoken of) was the man who unhorsed the Swedish general; he was the occasion that the Muscovites kept their fire in so soldier-like a manner, and brought up those troops which were covered from the enemy at the beginning Fought July 8, 1709, between Charles XII. of Sweden and Peter L Emperor of Russia; wherein Charles was entirely defeated. I believe you will say is a pity, considering the use I should have made of it), I never travelled in my life; but I do not know whether I could have spoken of any foreign country with more familiarity than I do at present, in company who are strangers to me. I have cursed the inns in Germany; commended the brothels at Venice-the freedom of conversation in France; and though I was never out of this dear town, and fifty miles about it, have been three nights together dogged by bravoes, for an intrigue with a cardinal's mistress at Rome. 66 It were endless to give you particulars of this kind; but I can assure you, Mr. Spectator, there are about twenty or thirty of us in this town-I • Prime Minister of Charles XII. No 137.1 TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1711. rent, dolerent, suo potius quam alterius arbitri TULL. Epist Even slaves were always at liberty to fear, rejoice, and Ir is no small concern to me, that I find so many complaints from that part of mankind whose portion it is to live in servitude, that those whom they depend upon will not allow them to be even as happy as their condition will admit of. There are, as these unhappy correspondents inform me, masters who are offended at a cheerful countenance, and think a serve the utmost awe in their presence. Thefe is one who says, if he looks satisfied his master asks him, "What makes him so pert this morning ?" if a little sour, "Hark ye, sirrah, are not you paid your wages?" The poor creatures live in the most extreme misery together; the master knows not how to preserve respect, nor the servant how to give it. It seems this person is of so sullen a nature that he mean by this town the cities of London and Westminster-I say there are in town a sufficient number of us to make a society among ourselves; and since we cannot be believed any longer, I beg of you to print this my letter, that we may meet together, and be under such regulation as there may be no occa-grieve, at their own rather than another's pleasure. sion for belief or confidence among us. If you think fit, we might be called the historians,' for liar is become a very harsh word. And that a member of the society may not hereafter be ill received by the rest of the world, I desire you would explain a little this sort of men, and not let us historians be ranked, as we are in the imaginations of ordinary people, among common liars, makebates, impostors and in-servant is broke loose from them, if he does not precendiaries. For your instruction herein, you are to know that an historian in conversation is only a person of so pregnant a fancy, that he cannot be contented with ordinary occurrences. I know a man of quality of our order, who is of the wrong side of forty-three, and has been of that age, according to Tully's jest, for some years since, whose vein is upon the romantic. Give him the least occasion, and he will tell you something so very particular that hap-knows but little satisfaction in the midst of a plentipened in such a year, and in such company, where by the bye was present such a one, who was afterward made such a thing. Out of all these circumstances, in the best language in the world, he will join together with such probable incidents an account that shows a person of the deepest penetration, the honestest mind, and withal something so humble when he speaks of himself, that you would admire. Dear Sir, why should this be lying? there is nothing He has withal the gravest aspect so instructive. something so very venerable and great! Another of these historians is a young man whom we would take in, though he extremely wants parts: as people send children (before they can learn any thing) to school, to keep them out of harm's way. He tells things which have nothing at all in them, and can neither please nor displease, but merely take up your time to no manner of purpose, no manner of delight; but he is good-natured, and does it because he loves to be saying something to you, and entertain you. "I could name you a soldier that hath done very great things without slaughter; he is prodigiously dull and slow of head, but what he can say is for ever false, so that we must have him. "Give me leave to tell you of one more, who is a lover; he is the most afflicted creature in the world lest what happened between him and a great beauty should ever be known. Yet again he comforts himself, Hang the jade her woman. If money can keep the slut trusty, I will do it, though I mortgage every acre; Antony and Cleopatra for that; All for Love and the World well Lost.' Then, Sir, there is my little merchant, honest Indigo of the 'Change, there is my man for loss and gain; there is tare and tret, there is lying all round the globe; he has such a prodigious intelligence, he knows all the French are doing, or what we intend or ought to intend, and has it from such hands. But alas, whither am I running! while I complain, while 1 remonstrate to you, even all this is a lie, and there is not one such person of quality, lover, soldier, or merchant, as I have now described in the whole world, that I know of. But I will catch myself once in my life, and in spite of nature speak one truth, to wit, that I am, T. "Your humble servant," &c. ful fortune, and secretly frets to see any appearance of content in one that lives upon the hundredth part of his income, while he is unhappy in the possession of the whole. Uneasy persons, who cannot possess their own minds, vent their spleen upon all who depend upon them; which, I think, is expressed in a lively manner in the following letters: ries: now.' "SIR, August 2, 1711. last month, and wish I had the happiness of being "I have read your Spectator of the third of the preferred to serve so good a master as Sir Roger. that good and gentle knight's. All his directions The character of my master is the very reverse of are given, and his mind revealed by way of contraas when any thing is to be remembered, with a peculiar cast of face he cries, 'Be sure to forget these two hours; be sure to call by the way upon If I am to make haste back, 'Do not come some of your companions.' Then another excellent way of his is, if he sets me any thing to do, which he ten times in a quarter of an hour to know whether I knows must necessarily take up half a day, he calls have done yet. This is his manner; and the same perverseness runs through all his actions, according as the circumstances vary. Besides all this, he is so suspicious, that he submits himself to the drudgery of a spy. He is as unhappy himself as he makes his servants; he is constantly watching us, and we differ no more in pleasure and liberty than as a gaoler and a prisoner. He lays traps for faults; and no Sooner makes a discovery, but falls into such language, as I am more ashamed of for coming from him, than for being directed to me. This, Sir, is a short sketch of a master I have served upwards of nine years; and though I have never wronged him, confess my despair of pleasing him has very much abated my endeavour to do it. If you will give me leave to steal a sentence out of my master's Clarendon, I shall tell you my case in a word, being used worse than I deserved, I cared less to deserve well than I had done.' No. 138.] WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1711. Utitur in re non dubia testibus non necessariis.—TULL. He uses unnecessary proofs in an indisputable point. ONE meets now and then with persons who are extremely learned and knotty in expounding clear cases. Tully tells us of an author that spent some pages to prove that generals could not perform the great enterprises which have made them so illus trious, if they had not had men. He asserted also, it seems, that a minister at home, no more than a commander abroad, could do any thing without other men were his instruments and assistants. On this occasion he produces the example of Themistocles, Pericles, Cyrus, and Alexander himself, whom he denies to have been capable of effecting what they did, except they had been followed by others. It is pleasant enough to see such persons contend without opponents, and triumph without victory. the world, and for that reason her woman is of twenty expect to wait, because his father died but two minds in a moment. My lady is one that never days ago."-T. knows what to do with herself; she pulls on and puts off every thing she wears twenty times before she resolves upon it for that day. Í stand at one end of the room, and reach things to her woman. When my lady asks for a thing, I hear, and have half brought it, when the woman meets me in the middle of the room to receive it, and at that instant she says, No, she will not have it.' Then I go back, and her woman comes up to her, and by this time she will have that and two or three things more in an instant. The woman and I run to each other; I am loaded and delivering the things to her, when my lady says she wants none of all these things, and we are the dullest creatures in the world, and she the unhappiest woman living, for she shall not be drest in any time. Thus we stand, not knowing what to do, when our good lady, with all the patience in the world, tells us as plain as she can speak, that she will have temper because we have no manner of understanding; and begins again to dress, and see if we can find out, of ourselves, what we are to do. When she is dressed she goes to dinner, and after she has disliked every thing there, she calls for her coach, then commands it in again, and then she will not go out at all, and then will go, too, and orders the chariot. Now, good Mr. Specter, I desire you would, in the behalf of all who serve froward ladies, give out in your paper, that nothing can be done without allowing time for it, and that one cannot be back again with what one was sent for, if one is called back before one can go a step for what they want. And if you please, let them know that all mistresses are as like as all servants. "I am your loving friend, "PATIENCE Giddy." These are great calamities; but I met the other day in the Five fields, towards Chelsea, a pleasanter | tyrant than either of the above represented. A fat fellow was puffing on in his open waistcoat; a boy of fourteen in a livery, carrying after him his cloak, upper coat, hat, wig, and sword. The poor lad was ready to sink with the weight, and could not keep up with his master, who turned back every half furlong, and wondered what made the lazy young dog lag behind, There is something very unaccountable, that people cannot put themselves in the condition of the persons below them, when they consider the commands they give. But there is nothing more common, than to see a fellow (who if he were reduced to it would not be hired by any man living) lament that he is troubled with the most worthless dogs in ature, The author above mentioned by the orator is placed for ever in a very ridiculous light, and we meet every day in conversation such as deserve the same kind of renown, for troubling those with whom they converse with the like certainties. The persons that I have always thought to deserve the highest admiration in this kind are your ordinary story-tellers, who are most religiously careful of keeping to the truth in every particular circumstance of a narration, whether it concerns the main end or not, A gentleman whom I had the honour to be in company with the other day, upon some occasion that he was pleased to take, said, he remembered a very pretty repartee made by a very witty man in King Charles's time upon the like occasion. "I remember," said he, upon entering into the tale, "much about the time of Oates's plot, that a cousin-german of mine and I were at the Bear in Holborn. No, I am out, it was at the Cross-keys; but Jack Thomson was there, for he was very great with the gentleman who made the answer. But I am sure it was spoken somewhere thereabouts, for we drank a bottle in that neighbourhood every evening; but no matter for all that, the thing is the same; but He was going on to settle the geography of the jest when I left the room, wondering at this odd turn of head, which can play away its words with uttering nothing to the purpose, still observing its own impertinences, and yet proceeding in them. I do not question but he informed the rest of his audience, who had more patience than I, of the birth and parentage, as well as the collateral alliances of his family who made the repartee, and of him who pro It would, perhaps, be running too far out of commen life to urge, that he who is not master of him-voked him to it. self and his own passions, cannot be a proper master It is no small misfortune to any who have a just of another. Equanimity in a man's own words and value for their time, when this quality of being so actions, will easily diffuse itself through his whole very circumstantial, and careful to be exact, hapfamily. Pamphilio has the happiest household of any pens to shew itself in a man whose quality obliges man I know, and that proceeds from the humane them to attend his proofs that it is now day, and the regand he has to them in their private persons, as like. But this is augmented when the same genius well as in respect that they are his servants. If there gets into authority, as it often does. Nay, I have be any occasion, wherein they may in themselves be known it more than once ascend the very pulpit. supposed to be unfit to attend to their master's con- One of this sort taking it in his head to be a great cerns by reason of any attention to their own, he is admirer of Dr. Tillotson and Dr. Beveridge, never good as to place himself in their condition. I failed of proving out of these great authors, things thought it very hecoming in him, when at dinner which no man living would have denied him upon the other day, he made an apology for want of more his own single authority. One day resolving to attendants. He said, "One of my footmen is gone come to the point in hand, he said, " according to to the wedding of his sister, and the other I do not that excellent divine" I will enter upon the matter, or in his words, in his fifteenth sermon of the folio edition, page 160, "I shall briefly explain the words, and then consider the matter contained in them." This honest gentleman needed not, one would think, strain his modesty so far as to alter his design of "entering upon the matter," to that of " briefly explaining." But so it was, that he would not even be contented with that authority, but added also the other divine to strengthen his method, and told us, with the pious and learned Dr. Beveridge, page 4th of his ninth volume, "I shall endeavour to make it as plain as I can from the words which I have now read, wherein for that purpose we shall consider" This wiseacre was reckoned by the parish, who did not understand him, a most excellent preacher; but that he read too much, and was so humble that he did not trust enough to his own parts. is cultivated in princes, it produces the greatest good or the greatest evil. Where sovereigns have it by impressions received from education only, it creates an ambitious rather than a noble mind: where it is the natural bent of the prince's inclination, it prompts him to the pursuit of things truly glorious. The two greatest men now in Europe (according to the common acceptation of the word great) are Lewis King of France, and Peter Emperor of Russia. As it is certain that all fame does not arise from the praetice of virtue, it is, methinks, no unpleasing amusement to examine the glory of these potentates, and distinguish that which is empty, perishing, and frivolous, from what is solid, lasting, and important. Lewis of France had his infancy attended by crafty and worldly men, who made extent of territory the most glorious instance of power, and mistook the spreading of fame for the acquisition of honour. Next to these ingenious gentlemen, who argue for The young monarch's heart was by such conversawhat nobody can deny them, are to be ranked a sort tion easily deluded into a fondness for vain glory, of people who do not indeed attempt to prove insig- and upon these unjust principles to form or fall in nificant things, but are ever labouring to raise argu- with suitable projects of invasion, rapine, murder, ments with you about matters you will give up to and all the guilts that attend war when it is unjust. them without the least controversy. One of these At the same time this tyranny was laid, sciences and people told a gentleman who said he saw Mr. Such-arts were encouraged in the most generous manner, a-one go this morning at nine of the clock towards the Gravel-pits: Sir, I must beg your pardon for that, for though I am very loath to have any dispute with you, yet I must take the liberty to tell you it was nine when I saw him at St. James's." When men of this genius are pretty far gone in learning, they will put you to prove that snow is white, and when you are upon that topic can say that there is really no such thing as colour in nature; in a word, they can turn what little knowledge they have into a ready capacity of raising doubts; into a capacity of being always frivolous and always unanswerable. It was of two disputants of this impertinent and laborious kind that the cynic said," one of these fellows is milking a ram, and the other holds the pail." ADVERTISEMENT. "The exercise of the snuff-box, according to the most fashionable airs and motions, in opposition to the exercise of the fan, will be taught with the best plain or perfumed snuff, at Charles Lillie's, perfumer, at the corner of Beaufort's buildings, in the Strand, and attendance given for the benefit of the young merchants about the Exchange for two hours every day at noon, except Saturdays, at a toy-shop near Garraway's coffee-house. There will be likewise taught the ceremony of the snuff-box, or rules for offering snuff to a stranger, a friend, or a mistress, according to the degrees of familiarity or distance, with an explanation of the careless, the scornful, the politic, and the surly pinch, and the gestures proper to each of them. as if men of higher faculties were to be bribed to permit the massacre of the rest of the world. Every superstructure which the court of France built upon their first designs, which were in themselves vicious, was suitable to its false foundation. The ostentation of riches, the vanity of equipage, shame of poverty, and ignorance of modesty, were the common arts of life; the generous love of one woman was changed into gallantry for all the sex, and friendships among men turned into commerces of interest, or mere professions. "While these were the rules of life, perjuries in the prince, and a general corruption of manners in the subject, were the spares in which France has entangled all her neighbours." With such false colours have the eyes of Lewis been enchanted, from the debauchery of his early youth to the superstition of his present old age. Hence it is, that he has the patience to have statues erected to his prowess, his valour, his fortitude, and in the softness and luxury of a court to be applauded for mag nanimity and enterprise in military achievements. Peter Alexovitz of Russia, when he came to years of manhood, though he found himself emperor of a vast and numerous people, master of an endless territory, absolute commander of the lives and fortunes of his subjects, in the midst of this unbounded power and greatness, turned his thoughts upon himself and people with sorrow. Sordid ignorance and a brute manner of life, this generous prince beheld and contemned, from the light of his own genius. His judgment suggested this to him, and his courage prompted him to amend it. In order to this, he did N. B. The undertaker does not question but in not send to the nation from whence the rest of the a short time to have formed a body of regular snuff-world has borrowed its politeness, but himself left his boxes ready to meet and make head against all the regiment of fans which have been lately disciplined, and are now in motion."-T. No. 139.] THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1711. Vera gloria radices agit, atque etiam propagatur; ficta omnia celeriter, tanquam flosculi, decidunt, nec simulatum potest quidquam esse diuturnum.-TULL True glory takes root, and even spreads: all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. Or all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent. According as this diadem to learn the true way to glory and honour, and application to useful arts, wherein to employ the laborious, the simple, the honest part of his people. Mechanic employments and operations were very justly the first objects of his favour and observation. With this glorious intention be travelled into foreign nations in an obscure manner, above receiving little honours where he sojourned, but prying into what was of more consequence, their arts of peace and of war. By this means has this great prince laid the foundation of a great and lasting fame, by persona labour, personal knowledge, personal valour. would be injury to any of antiquity to name them |