"IF himself His understanding self so maul his ass-self." "No owl will live in Crete."-Euphues. OLD Merrythought's advice to his son is, "Be a good husband; that is, wear ordinary clothes, eat the best meat, and drink the best drink; be merry, and give to the poor, and believe me, thou hast no end of thy goods."-Kt. of the B. Pestle, p. 378. "PLUSIEURS blâmeront l'entassement de passages que l'on vient de voir; j'ai prévu leurs dédains, leurs dégoûts et leur censures magistrales, et n'ai pas voulu y avoir égard.-BAYLE, vol. 4, p. 461. P.CAUSSIN'S Sympathy with the sun, which he called "son astre, et duquel il ressentait des opérations fort notables. Tant au corps qu'en l'esprit, selon ses approches et ses éloignemens, et à proportion qu'il se montrait, ou qu'il était couvert de nuages."Ibid. p. 612. THE tongue made less for language than for taste,-beasts the proof, and that men can speak without tongues."-Ibid. vol. 5, p. 15. Cerisantes. Theban Legion. SIR J. MALCOLM'S Sketches of Persia. "PLURA proponere est tutius; ne una definitio parum rem comprehendat, et, ut ita dicam, formula excidat."-SENECA, de Benef. vol. 1, p. 283. Street, Grosvenor Square, so far back as the 20th of February, 1801, and who was then supposed to be only fifteen months old, and his linen marked with the letter C, will apply personally, or by letter, post paid, to Mr. Jordan, solicitor, 7, Lincoln's Inn Fields, they will hear of something greatly to their advantage. ST. JEROME. "Infans eram, nec tum scribere noveram: Nunc, ut nihil aliud profecerim, saltem Socraticum illud habeo, Scio quod nescio."— BISHOP REYNOLDS, vol. 3, Ded. "Do you not," BISHOP SANDFORD asks, "find yourself continually inclined to forget that inanimate things have no volition ?" "Yes," he answers himself, "I do, but so did Dean Swift, a wiser man than I, who used to say that nothing was more provoking than the perverseness of inanimate things."-Remains, vol. 1, p. 216. 6 "I REMEMBER," says BISHOP SANDFORD, (vol. 1, p. 205,) 66 once hearing old Dr. W. with the mild appearance of an old lion tormented with the tooth-ache, utter this charitable wish,' I wish,' said he, that more people would die of diseases in the spleen, that we might know what purposes the spleen is intended to answer.' Nothing would have tempted me to trust myself in the old Ogre's hands. I never heard a wish so truly professional." "Je ne crois pas que l'on ait pensé dans ce siècle rien de grand et de délicat, que l'on ne voie dans les livres des anciens. Les plus sublimes conceptions de métaphysique et de morale que nous admirons dans quelques modernes, se rencontrent dans les livres des anciens philosophes.”— OCCASIONAL drunkenness advised by Se- BAYLE, vol. 5, p. 295. neca. Ibid. p. 229. AUGUST 18, 1830.-If the parents or next kin of a boy who was left in the passage of the Coach and Horses public-house, Mount CURION, the Piedmontese reformer, who found a place of refuge in Switzerland, published a treatise de Amplitudine beati regni Dei,—“où il tâcha de montrer que le nombre des prédestinés est plus grand que celui des réprouvés. Il y a lieu d'être surpris qu'il osât prêcher cet évangile au milieu des Suisses; car une telle doctrine est fort suspecte aux véritables réformés; et je ne pense pas qu'aucun professeur-là pût soutenir aujourd'hui en Hollande impunément." -Ibid. p. 346. "DUM dubitat natura, marem faceretne puellam, Factus es, ô pulcher, penè puella puer." Doret so greatly admired this epigram of Ausonius, that he insisted a demon must have been the author of it.—Ibid. p. 426. A HUGE fellow. Street has thought proper to lay claim to be | Though roughly, yet most aptly, into anger." the birth-place of Milton. If your suppoAct iii. sc. ii, sition be founded upon the circumstance of the street in question being now called Milton Street, I beg to inform you, that "Milton" happens to be the name of a very❘ respectable carpenter who has lately taken a lease of the whole street, and who is swayed by the very pardonable ambition of perpetuating that fact. I am, sir, your very obedient servant, Sept. 10. A Constant Reader. -"that gross compound cannot but diffuse The more absurd, I shall be the better wel- 1 It is very well known that few of LILLY'S similies are to be relied upon, - but I have several instances of this old notion, which, as this sheet passes through the press, I cannot lay my "AND as occasion stirr'd her, how she started, | hand upon.-J. W. W. CROW quills.-LADY LUXBOROUGH's Let- disposition is altered and changed with milk, ters, p. 73. as the moisture and sap of the earth doth change the nature of that tree or plant that MATTHEW HENRY's pen.-THORESBY, it nourisheth. Wherefore the common byvol. 2, p. 151. word of the common people seemeth to be grounded upon good experience, which is, "YE fools that wear gay cloaths, love to be this fellow hath sucked mischief even from gaped at, the teat of the nurse."-Euphues. What are you better when your end calls on you? "HE should talk of many matters, not Will gold preserve ye from the grave? or always harp upon one string; he that always jewels? Get golden minds, and fling away your trappings. Unto your bodies minister warm raiment, Wholesome and good: glitter within, and spare not." BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Maid in the Mill, Act iii. Sc. ii. singeth one note, without descant, breedeth no delight: he that always playeth one part breedeth loathsomeness to the ear. It is variety that moveth the mind of all men." Ibid. "SUCH gross questions are to be answered with slender reasons, and such idle |