RABBI PERIDA made it a rule to read and explain the same thing 400 times over to his scholars; and when one of his pupils was found utterly ignorant of one of these lessons at last, he repeated it to him 400 times more. Upon this a voice came from heaven, saying, "Perida chuse whether to live 400 years, or obtain innocence and eternal life for thyself and thy posterity." He would have chosen the latter and better reward, but his pupils exclaimed, "No! no! 400 years for Perida."-POLWHELE's Cornwall, vol. 5, p. 190.

A CRITIC on the Conscious Lovers says, "perhaps it is dangerous to hold up for distinguished admiration the performance of mere duty. It weakens the influence of goodness to tell mankind it is so rare among them."

"THERE are hours, you know," says Tom, in the Conscious Lovers," when a lady is neither pleased nor displeased, neither sick nor well; when she lolls or loiters; when she is without desires, from having more of every thing than she knows what to do with."-P. 20.

MR. SEALAND, in the Conscious Lovers, says, "Give me leave to say, that we merchants are a species of gentry that have grown into the world this last century; and are as honourable, and almost as useful, as you landed folks that have always thought yourselves so much above us;-for your trading, forsooth! is extended no farther than a load of hay, or a fat ox.”—P. 81.

"APRIL 21, 1731. One William Peters committed to jail in Ireland, being found alive on a journey three days after he had been executed for horse-stealing."-Gent. Mag. vol. 1, p. 172.

"JANUARY 3. A post-boy was shot by an Irishman on the road near Stone in Staffordshire, who died in two days, for which the gentleman was imprisoned."-Ibid. p. 32.

M. RIVAROL says-"C'est avec une ou deux sensations que quelques Anglois ont fait un livre."-Monthly Review, vol. 71, p.

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НЕ says, that "French is now no more to be considered as the French language, but rather as the language of man; the European powers employ it in their treaties on this account, and also because, to speak plainly, it is the only language that has a character of probity attached to its very genius."-Ibid. p. 582.

"PRACTICAL Benevolence; in a Letter addressed to the Public, by a Universal Friend, to whom Persons of all Ranks and Denominations may have recourse for Advice in the most critical situations and most delicate circumstances of Human Life. 18. Murray. 1785.

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"The writer having gone through a great variety of scenes in life, opens a shop of experience, where any one may purchase advice. He proposes to make up quarrels ; to give counsel in weighty undertakings; to afford assistance in writing letters on delicate occasions; and to minister friendly counsel in distress. In return, he expects a gratuity proportioned to the ability of his client. "What my destiny," says the author, may be preparing for me under this character, time alone can determine. If I reap from the employment of every moment of mine sufficient to support life with decency, for the public good, it is all I desire; and if my existence is found by experience to produce that good, it will be the interest of the public, as well as my own, to prolong it. Yet, however it may happen, I have such sort of feelings about my heart as seem to presage success; for to the honour of this country be it said, that whenever virtuous ends are pursued by virtuous means, encouragement never fails to accompany the attempt.-The Universal Friend, address me, 5 Dartmouth Street, Westminster.-Ibid. vol. 73, p. 472.

CULLEY, the famous breeder, in his Observations on Live Stock, recommends for the cad horses that have what is called a little blood in them, that is, a small strain of the running breed; as such a horse, he says, "will usually perform a pleasanter day's work, than one that has little or none of the racing breed in him." This is an opinion very generally admitted, though we are disposed to believe that it applies only in certain cases, and is by no means universal."Ibid. vol. 75, p. 130.

A LADY in one of Congreve's comedies says, "One's cruelty is one's power; and when one parts with one's cruelty, one parts with one's power."-Way of the World, p. 47. So slaveholders seem to think.

"THE Devil's an ass," says a jade in this comedy. "If I were a painter, I would draw him like an idiot, with a bib and bells. Man should have his head and horns, and woman the rest of him."-Ibid. p. 62.

DRUNKENNESS. Mrs. Williams said one day to Johnson, "I wonder what pleasure men can take in making beasts of themselves." "I wonder, Madam," he replied, "that you have not penetration enough to

see the strong inducement to this excess; for he who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man."-PERCIVAL STOCKDALE, vol. 2, p. 109.

ANGELICA in Love for Love, when affecting an indifference to Valentine which she does not feel, says, "Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possession of a wish discovers the folly of the chase."-P. 116.

"THE single word Pleasure, in a masculine sense, comprehends every thing that is cruel, every thing that is base, and every thing that is desperate."-School for Wives, p.87.

SORRY should I be to think " que os meus escritos nao somente sao como arvore sem fructo, mas como folhas sem proveito, que servem so para o vento da vaidade."-P. ANT. DAS CHAGAS. CARTES, t. 1, p. 218.

In the advertisement to his Fashionable Lover, CUMBERLAND says, "The level manners of a polished country like this, do not supply much matter for the comic muse, which delights in variety and extravagance. Wherever, therefore, I have made any attempt at novelty, I have found myself obliged either to dive into the lower class of men, or betake myself to the outskirts of the empire: the centre is too equal and refined for such purposes."

LUTHER says, "Sæpe recordor boni Gersonis, dubitantis num quid boni publicè scribendum et proferendum sit. Si scriptio omittitur, multæ animæ negliguntur, quæ liberari potuissent; si vero illa præstatur, statim Diabolus præstò est cum linguis pestiferis et calumniarum plenis, quæ omnia corrumpunt et inficiunt."-SENNERTUS, vol. 1, p. 862.

ONE of Alexander's flatterers, (Athæneus calls him Nicesius), "protested to him that the very flies which sucked his blood became more valiant, and gave stings more courageously than other flies did."-EVELYN, Misc. p. 33.

LOUIS XIII. had among his guards 150 horse musqueteers chosen from the first families in France; and he was so physiog nomically punctual in their election, that it is reported he would admit none who were of a red hair.-Ibid. p. 63.

THE abbey of St. Faron at Meaux. In the midst of its refectory was a fountain, that supplied their repasts.-Voyages de Montaigne, Rome, 1774.

THE inns must have been superb in his days. At Chalons he was served in silver,