most expensive dishes; the pleasure being in the mere wanton prodigality. Seneca, Consol. ad Helviam, c. 9, touches upon this folly.

Eve beat Adam with a bough which she tore from the tree of knowledge, and cudgelled him, till he yielded and ate. BAYLE, vol. 6, p. 325.

Paracelsus fancies that serpents ever since the fall retain a knowledge of the highest natural mysteries, by the special will of God.-Ibid. Eve, A. vol. 6, p. 327.

MICHEL le Faucheur, a Hugonot, preached one day against duelling with such effect that Mareshal de la Force, who heard the sermon, protested "devant quelques braves," that if a challenge were sent him, he would not accept it. Ibid. p. 412.

A PREACHER " qui se faisait une règle de tousser par compas et par mesure, précisément à une telle, ou à un telle période: et de peur d'y manquer, il faisait des marques à son manuscrit partout ou il se proposait de tousser. Il écrivait à ces endroits la hem hem, comme on l'a vu dans l'original après sa mort."-Ibid.

Jacques Ferrand published a Treatise "de la Maladie d' Amour." Paris, 1622.Ibid. p. 433.

When Charles Fevret lost his wife, "il fit retrancher son lit de moitié et ne se remaria pas."-Ibid. p. 480.

Henri called Frauwenlob for his praise of women. His funeral, and the wine poured upon his grave. Under the word Frauwenlob. Ibid. p. 597.

GEDICCUS, his book Mulieres Homines non esse, was a satire not upon women but Socinianism. See N. E. under this head. -Ibid. vol. 7, p. 47.

qu'après un long examin."-Ibid. p. 49.

The father of Scipio Gentilis wrote a Disquisition "an vero Dæmones Morborum causa sint."-Ibid. p. 66.

The Gymnosophistes. "C'était une chose honteuse parmi eux que d'être malade, de sorte que ceux qui voulaient éviter cette ignominie se brulaient eux mêmes." - Ibid. p. 83.

Gregory Nazianzen calls a wife an acquired evil; and what is worse, one that may not be put away.

MR. DEMPSTER to Pinkerton: "You are a bee that has taken pains to collect honey. I am a mere bear, made for overturning the hive, and robbing the combs." - PINKERTON'S Corr. vol. 1, p. 222.

"H. WALPOLE: "I was forced to quit Dow's History of Indostan, because the Indian names made so little impression on me, that I went backward instead of forward, and was every minute reverting to the former page to find about whom I was reading." Ibid. p. 226.

"LORD BUCHAN: "I wish death to keep off such quarry. I could let him have plenty of gentlemen at a shilling a dozen that would fill his maw much better than our historian." Ibid. p. 259.

HISTORY of Breeches. - Ibid. p. 407.

"EXPERIENCED waggoners and drivers of teams observe that a smart quick look in a horse denotes a hasty passionate temper.STEVENSON'S Dorset, p. 419.

"There is a degree of coolness required, in cart-horses, and high spirit is considered rather as a fault than a perfection." Ibid. Women have one advantage: none of their duties tend in any way to deteriorate them.

land to sow clover upon it."-Ibid. p. 427. "Clover is not charged with 'tiring or sickening' the milder species of clays."Ibid. p. 428.

"Certain crops sown with a view of resting the soil."-Ibid. p. 433.

VANCOUVER (Devonshire, p. 357), calls pigeons " those voracious and insatiate vermin, for in no other light can they possibly be viewed or considered by the agriculturist." He calculates 1,125,000 pair of dove pigeons in England and Wales, consuming 157,500,000 pints of corn annually, to the value of 1,476,5621. 108.

"An ingenious observer of nature conveyed water on a dunghill in the summer months in such quantity, as to make a kind of fermenting chaos, for the purpose of animating the whole mass. It became full of insects, and was used in the autumn as manure; and he believed with much greater powers than it would otherwise have possessed." DARWIN'S Phytologia, p. 240.

Darwin recommends that dunghills be thus watered for the purpose of encouraging the propagation and nourishment of myriads of insects, and be thus used as manure! Beast that he was!

In a not much better spirit (p. 243,) he would have "burial grounds divided into two compartments; the earth from one of which saturated with animal decomposition should be taken away, once in ten or twenty years, for the purposes of agriculture; and sand, or clay, or less fertile soil brought into its place. Nor would the removal of this earth, if the few bones which might be found, were again buried for a further decomposition, be likely to shock the relations of the deceased; as the superstition concerning the earth from which we rose, and into which we return, has gradually vanished before the light of reason!"

"Or insentient entities, of mere vegetables, none yet pretend to the honour of a

of Man, vol. 2, p. 130.

"POULTRY are fed for the London market by mixing gin and even opium with their food, and keeping them in the dark; but they must be killed as soon as they have fattened, or they soon become weak and emaciated like human drunkards."DARWIN, Phytologia, p. 337.

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"THE first law of organic nature might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' It would seem," he says " to be one great slaughterhouse, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice." But looking for " benevolent idea to console us," he finds it in " the happiness which organised beings acquire from irritation only; " and among consolatory reflections observes that, in consequence of this eat or be eaten law, "before mankind introduced rational society, and conquered the savage world, old age was unknown on earth."-Ibid. 556-7.

"That sort of superstition which may be called Theophobia."

THEOPHILE de Garancières imputes "cette triste et noire mélancolie, cette sombre consomption qui devore le peuple Anglois," to the great use which they make of sugar.SALGUES, Erreurs, &c. vol. 1, p. 370. Physiognomy of oysters.

LET there be no skull and cross-bones carved upon my tomb-stone.

Were I a recluse or a hermit, a skull should be no part of the furniture of my cell.

A hermit's might be a very agreeable life, provided he had a good Mrs. Hermit, and a due number of chubby-cheeked young Hermits playing about his hermitage. Place it then, if you will, far in a wild, unknown to public view, let them have some halfdozen such hermitages within needful and social reach, and the climate be good, and no wild beasts there, and no savages, and his only care to provide the subsistence vous en pensez, mais ce qui vous en plaist." -Ibid. p. 360.

BECAUSE there is no portrait of D. D. therefore in this world it exists only ideally, and probably only in my mind. His perfect likeness no doubt there is, or will be, the number of archetypal faces not being

infinite.

Treating portraits with disrespect, was

Motto for the 2nd vol. of D. D.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 539.

A SAILOR on board of one of his Majesty's ships, who had been for several years on a foreign station, and had hardly ever been on shore, asked leave last week to have a trip by land, and accordingly proceeded to Alverstoke, where, for the first time in his life, he witnessed a funeral. He was evi

ment.

I cannot have it painted from memory, and cannot delineate it myself. Mason's Gray. And what can description effect. See how little! Let a dozen artists paint such eyes and nose and mouth as are here described and there will be no resemblance between any two of the countenances."

"TOUSJOURS pouvons-nous bien dire ce qu'avons teu et non pas taire ce qu'avons publié." BOUCHET, 12 Seree, ff. 377.

The horse said to be the most rational of all beasts, " à cause du temperament de son cerveau."-Ibid. p. 358.

A man wagered " qu'il failloit dire la gueule à toutes bestes, et qu'il n'y avoit que l'homme qui eust bouche;" but the judge who was appealed to for deciding the wager determined "qu' à cause de l'excellence du cheval, il falloit dire la bouche." The wager began about a horse." Ibid. 9 Seree,

p. 300.

"L'ame du Mary defunct est contristee par les secondes nopces de sa femme-si nous voulons croire le paragraphe Nos igitur en l'authent. de nuptiis." - Ibid. 5 Seree, p. 174.

"Nous nous contenterons de sçavoir que vous la lisez, et nous vous permettons de croire et de penser tout ce qui vous plaira, et mesme de n'y penser pas." - Epistle Ded. to La Pretieuse, 1 part.

"Il n'est pas question de juger, mais de

nial, and when he returned on board at night, could talk of nothing but what he had seen in the churchyard. "Why, what d'ye think they does with the dead corpseses ashore?" said he to a shipmate. should I know," said the other. "Why then, Bill, may I never stir," replied Jack, "but they puts 'em up in boxes and directs 'em."

"How

"J'AY tousjours ouy dire qu'il y avoit cette difference entre ce que disoient les Predicateurs et les Medecins. Il faut faire ce que ceux-là disent, sans s'arrester à ce qu'ils font; et de ceux-cy, faire tout ce qu'ils font, et ne rien faire de ce qu'ils disent."-La Pretieuse, vol. 2, p. 51.

A COMPERE of Louis XIII. - "Comme il

n'avoit point de Terre ny de seigneurie qui pût former un titre glorieux, il s'avisa de se qualifier Seigneur de Dix sept cens mil escus." Ibid. p. 510.

A QUESTION commonly asked at table: "Qui est le plus gourmand; ou celuy qui se brûle, ou celuy qui souffle, ou qui attend?" - Ibid. p. 538.

"J'AY servy ma passion à plusieurs mets; il n'est point de ragoust d'injures dont je n'aye repû ma colere." Ibid. p. 558.

"-Vous ne connoissez pas l'autheur de ce livre. Il ne craint rien, et fait son livre aux dépens de tout ce qui luy tombe dans

l'esprit. Il n'est pas si fou que de se donner une peine chagrine, ni d'en faire un travail fâcheux. Il se divertit luy-meme en hazardant de vous plaire. Il est le premier à le censurer, à s'en railler, et à condamner sa façon d'écrire. Il n'en fait pas un fonds de gloire, ou il vueille faire naistre ny subsister sa reputation. Il n'a pour but que de se plaire en deplaisant à ce qui luy deplait." Ibid. vol. 4, p. 68.

"POTENTIFICANS, Potentificatum et Potentificabile, Sapientificans, Sapientificatum et Sapientificabile,

Bonificans, Bonificatum et Bonificabile." REMA LULLY's Illustration of the Trinity. GARASSE. Doct. Cur. 118.

FISHER, an American friend of Brissot, thought that the activity of a people might be estimated by the rapidity of their rivers, and the variations of their atmosphere :" II voyoit la lenteur et l'indecision des Virginiens dans la lenteur de la Potomack, tandis que le courant rapide des rivières du nord lui peignoit l'activité des Angleterriens." - BRISSOT. Voyage dans les Etats Unis, vol. 2, p. 125.

"DREAMING on nought but idle poetry, That fruitless and unprofitable art, Good unto none, but least to the professors." BEN JONSON, vol. 1, p. 8.

CAUSING "it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness wherein there is no man,

"To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth." -Job, chap. 38, ver. 26, 7.