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tory of France is as improper for the Egyptian modes of reasoning as for their palm trees; and, without going so far, perhaps the orange trees, which do not flourish here so easily as in Italy, denote that there is in Italy a certain turn of mind, which we have not in France. It is however certain, that by the reciprocal connection and dependance that exists among all the parts of the material world, the difference of climate, perceivable in its effects upon plants, ought also to extend its influence to the powers of the human brain."

“MLLE. D'OSMOND, à laquelle on avoit défendu de faire des vers, en faisoit dans

le cabinet secret."

The Duc de Bourgoyne thus alludes to this in some verses to his wife.

“O toi Latonien, descends du sacré mont, Fais éclore de ma pensée

Des vers, tels que tu sçais sur le chaise percée

Dicter à la belle Osmond."

Mem. de M. Maintenon, tom. 6, p. 133.

THE two things in the world of which there seems to be the greatest waste, are good advice, and good intentions.-R. S.

"THE time shall come that the oak which is beaten with every storm shall be a dining table in the Prince's hall." -DR. DEE'S Relation, p. 153, said by Gabriel.

“THE Turks say a man is to say No only to the devil."-Lives of the Norths, vol. 3, p. 181.

OYSTER mouse trap.-BRITTON's Devonshire, p. 26.

WILL any great effects be produced again in Christendom, as in former times, by religious delusion, or imposture? The failure of the St. Simonians does not prove it to be impossible.

"In the first days of balloons, old Frede

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"NEOCLES of Crotona maintained that the women in the moon lay eggs, and that the men children hatched from them grow to five times our stature."- Athenæus Deip. lib. 2, p. 57. TURNER'S Sacred History, vol. 3, p. 18, N.

"ARCHIMEDES is said to have raised four columns at Syracuse, and to have placed upon each a bronze ram, so ingeniously constructed that the wind made them bleat, and so placed that the ram which bleated denoted what wind blew. M. Houel thought he had identified two of these weather-rams

in the Viceroy of Palermo's palace (about 1780), for he observed small holes in their flanks, near the thigh, and in other parts, and by blowing in them, a sound like bleating was produced."-Monthly Review, vol. 72, p. 515.

A STORY of Theocritus, that when some one who had been reading some of his verses to him, desired to know which he liked best, he replied, "all that you were so kind as not to read."-Ibid. vol. 74, p.

457.

UNDER the article Amusements in DR. ranks as one" occasional floating through TRUSLER'S London Adviser and Guide, he the atmosphere in balloons." A. D. 1786.

DR. SEDGWICK. A little, pale clergyman, Master of Queen's, Cambridge, always stood by the fire at Morgan's Coffee-house, without speaking to any one; so splenetic, that he fancied his nose to be loose in his face, and consulted Palmer upon it, who

It were hardly worth the statement,-but in the original of Athenæus, instead of five, it is fifteen — πεντεκαιδεκαπλασίονας ἡμῶν εἶναι, in loc.-J. W. W.

convinced him of his error (if any body is rules. Clemens Alexandrinus says, to be convinced) by giving it a pull.

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"I REMEMBER Mrs. Higgons used to say Lady Clarendon had such a power over her understanding, that she might persuade her she was a fish." A. D. 1748, Countess of Hertford (afterwards Duchess of Somerset) to Lady Luxborough,-HULL's Select Letters, vol. 1, p. 81.

the

statue of Jupiter Olympus was made of the bones of an elephant." (Sed qy. ivory?) —Hooke, vol. 1, p. 23.

A SUSPICION that Pallas derived name and origin from the Palladium, that statue which represented a young man, armed from head to foot, having been given by Pallas, King of Arcadia, to his daughter Chrysé when she married Dardanus. — Ibid. p. 23, N.

"THE Flamen Dialis, or Priest of Jupiter, might not ride on horseback, nor be absent a night from Rome; but he had the privilege of wearing a hollow or pierced ring, wearing a splendid robe (the præterta) and sitting in the senate in a curule chair; none but a freeman might cut his hair; and the clippings, and the pairings of his nails, were to be buried 'subter arborem felicem."" - Ibid. p. 115, N.

"HOR ristringendomi sotto i panni de la patienza."-PIETRO ARETINO, Letters, vol. 1, p. 23.

"Quis enim potest crastinum videre solem? aut quis imaginem hominis nondum natí depingere ?"-SOUTH as Terra Filius.

"TRISTE de quem assi sua vida passa."

DIOGO BERNARDES, Lyma, p. 143.

"QUANTO O silencio val, sabese tarde." ANTONIO FERREIRA, ibid. p. 168.

WHISTLER telling Shenstone of his brother's marriage, says, " I had rather have a . “ Ὀρθῶς μ' ἐρωτᾶς, κεὶς ἀγῶν ἔρχει λό“I åywv' relative than a friend married, for the last is always entirely lost."-Ibid. p. 163.

A BARBER expressed his regret to Mr. Hoskins (p. 59), "that the prophet had only promised them rivers of milk in his paradise instead of bouza."

TUTELAR idols are supposed to have been talismans made according to magical

ywv." EURIPIDES, Phænissæ, v. 944.

“ Ου γὰρ ὁ μὴ καλὸν, οὔποτ ̓ ἔφυ καλόν." Ibid. v. 828.

"Ir is not and it cannot come to good." Hamlet, act i. sc. ii.

IN an Eclogue of DIOGO BErnardes, Alcido, who was chosen by two poetical shepherds,

"Por ver qual a vitoria levaria, Como juiz (que foi) deo por sentença Que naō-avia entr'elles differença." Lyma, p. 23.

"PROMETO,

De nao me ficar isso no tinteiro,
Que de fallar verdades naõ me pejo."

Ibid. p. 99.

"TAL frutto nasce di cotal radice." Petrarch, vol. 1, p. 247.

JUAN GONZALEZ, a Catalan optician, under D. Antonio Gimbernet's direction

(then Professor of Anatomy at Barcelona) made artificial eyes, that is, eyes on the retina of which objects were reflected according to the laws of optics.-MASDEU, vol. 1, p. 93, N.

"THOU art a blessed fellow to think as

every man thinks; never a man's thought

in the world keeps the road way better than thine."-Henry IV. part ii. act ii. sc. ii.

THE russetine, or brown russet, is called buff-coat in Devonshire.

"SELF-LOVE, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting."

Henry V. act ii. sc. iv.

"Io non l'intesi allor: ma or sì fisse Sue parole mi trovo ne la testa Che mai più saldo in marmo non si scrisse." Petrarch, vol. 2, p. 153.

So too the Nobila Donna, before whom Love and Petrarch plead, after listening to them, concludes,

"Piacemi aver vostre questione udite : Ma più tempo bisogna a tanta lite."

Ibid. p. 133.

SOME who appeal to posterity may be told,

"Che così lange Di poca fiamma gran luce non viene.” Ibid. p. 158.

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"MR. DARBY.-I might call him the religious printer. He goes to heaven with the Anabaptists, but is a man of a general charity."-J. DUNTON, p. 247.

"Whose wife was chaste as a picture cut in alabaster; whose son John was a very beauty of a man, and a finished Christian to boot, and for his daughter in Cornhill, she bore away the bell from all the booksellers' wives in London."-Ibid.

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""Tis a mortifying circumstance, that when a man has outlived his follies, he cannot procure them Christian burial."-Monthly Review, vol. 24, p. 276.

"WHAT subject can be found that lies not fair for me?"-DRAYTON, Song 20, p. 453.

"EN vérité l'espérance vaut à peu près la réalité pour la plupart des hommes; je ne sais pas même si elle ne vaut pas mieux. C'est un bien qui ne s'use jamais, au lieu que ce qu'on possede perd bientôt de son prix."-Supplement Historique à l'Etat Nominatif du Pension, p. 3. Anonymous.

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ROWLAND JONES, Esq. made a dictionary of more than 200 full octavo pages in his Circles of Games, and resolved every word into spring-water. "This writer's disorder is certainly not a hydrophobia."-Monthly Review, vol. 45, p. 155.

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"IL court un manuscrit dans le monde d'un volume assez considerable, que a pour

How you may hear a triangle.—Ibid. p. titre, la Religion, tragi-comedie en cinq actes

537.

Dans

et en prose, soidisant, traduite de l'Anglois de M. R. pas M.J.M. A. D. 1764. ce prétendu drame sont personnifiés la Religion, la Fanatisme, la Cruauté, l'Imbécillite, la Crédulité, la Philosophie, &c.: et l'on met en action ces êtres moraux avec aussi peu d'esprit que de bon sens. Il est d'autant moins dangereux, qu'il n'a point le charme séducteur d'une diction élégante." One-BACHAUMONT, Men. Sec. vol. 2, p. 78.

LORD LYTTELTON was at Paris when a dauphin was born (Louis the Sixteenth, I suppose). "The natural gaiety of the nation❘ is so improved upon this occasion, that they are all stark mad with joy, and do nothing but sing and dance about the streets by hundreds and by thousands. The expressions of their joy are admirable.

fellow gives notice to the public that he designs to draw teeth for a week together upon the Pont Neuf gratis.-Ibid. vol. 51, p. 444.

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