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him, or whom
m y APPARITIONS.—"
visitor.P P A R TolEo
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should
ble a priori ; and I cannot refuse assent to the strong evidence that
such things are, nor to the common consent which has prevailed among
sit people, every where, in all ages;
in the widest acceptation of the word."--SouTszv's Colloqaks Mc
Progress and Prospects of Society, voL L 6.
The object of a good and wise man in this transitory
state of existence should be to fit himself for a better, by tx,ntaaiiin,
the unworthy propensities of his nature, and improving all it, betkgi
aspirations ;to do his duty first to his family, then to his neighbo„
lastly to his country and his kind; to promote the welfare and
has the means of assisting, and never wantonly to injure the meanam
pines, of those who are In any degree dependent upon ldrtniitbei:::'" said
IK
thing that lives; to encourage, as far .s be may have the power, what.
ever is useful and ornamental in society, whatever tends to refine std
elevate humanity ; to store his mind with such knowledge as it in trawl
to receive, and he is able to attain; and so to employ the talents com.
mitted to his charge, that when the account is required, he may hope te
have his stewardship approved.—Did, i. 165.
The geometry of Euclid, Apollonius, Archimedes, lit„
noblest and sublimest effort of the human intellect, has long been,.,,
perseded by the modem analyticks, which, how pleasing weer to an fr,
dolent mind, and however useful in some abstruse speculatious ate
wholly inconsistent with the elegant simplicity of the ancient method;
a beautiful specimen of which will soon be brought to light in thin amt.
versity. where the collections if Pappus will appear for the first time it
their original language, and be studied with the true spirit of the py,
thagorean and Alexandrian Schools. —An Oration intended i 9 hare
been spoken in the theatre at arford, on the 914 of July, 177:1; by 4
wankr of the University, p. 12.—This member was Sir ‘Villiatil
Jones, yet straneretomsay the above eloquent oration, worthy the palmy
days of ancient not inserted in the collected edition of his
works published by Lord Teignmouth.
FEMALE JEIIUITS.—It is not, I believe, very generally
known that there was formerly an order of hitlitCabell. &vt.tal women
in various parts of Italy, formed a society under the above title, but
without the approbation of the Holy See. They toJk a particular habit,
, erected colleges and probation-houses, and appointed one of their nun..
her to be their superior, with the title of Provost. They made the OA,
vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience. Urban the VIII. supprelsol
the order in 102. See the 21st chapter, the first volume of Sisioa',
Bibholheque Critique. 12wo. 1708.
LORD BYRON'S OPINION OF POPE.—With regard to
poetry in general, I am convinced, the more I think of it, that he
(Moore) and all others—Scott, Southey, Wordsworth, Campbell, I, are
' all in the wrong, one as much as another; that we are upon a scat
revolutionary, poetical system (or systems), not worth a in itselt
and from which none but Rogers and Crabbe are free, and that the pre.
sent and next generation will finally be of this opinion. I ant tt tiam
confirmed in this, by having lately gone over some of our class.cs, pr.
titularly Pope, whom I tried in this way took Moore'sp.cnn, arc
my own, and some others, and went over them side by side with Pope's.
and I was really astonished (I ought not to have been so) and mortitie,
at the ineffable distance, in point of sense, learning, effect, and even
Imagination, passion, and Invention, between the little Queen Anne'.
man,
and us of the lower empire. Depend upon it, it is all Horace then,
and Claudia!) now, among us; and if I had to begin again, I wouli
mould myself ace!ordingly."—Byron's Correspondence, quoted in thc
Quarterly Review', vol. 37, p. 420.
THE Purr DESSEIN —At the hotel in Calais, we were
shown the chamber said to have liven occupied by that lively sent!.
mentalist, Lawrence Sterne. The recollections combined with th:,
circumstance are of the most pleasing description. One thing, how.
ever, is likely to disturb the perfect illusion of the whole, and is much
to be regretted—the said apartment having been built since the drat::
of that very favourite ! prima fides! F. E.
In our peregrinations of last Sunday, we observed tltz
following epitaph In Harbiedown Churchyard :
Stop, traveller, and cast an eye:—
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so you must be;
Therefore, prepare to follow me.
Under which some wag has written—
To follow you I'm not content,
Unless T knew which way you went.—lrentish Chronicle.
ONLY ROOM rou ONE.—A lanky Irish peasant, on 7.
little ragged pony, was floundering through one of the bogs no commot
in his country, when the animal, in its efforts to push through, got or:
of his feet into the stirrup. "Al. ! now," said the rider; "if you art
going to get up, it's time for me to get down."
GRACES OF STYLE.—He that will write with precisiou.
energy, and vigour only, may line only with men • but he who winhe,
for suppleness in his style, for amenity, and for that something which
charms and enchants, will, I believe, do very right to live with women.
When I read that Pericles, sacrificed every morning to the Graces, what
I understand by it is, that every day Pericles breakfasted with Aspasia.
—Marissorstef.

A JOLLY FELLOW.—From the memoirs of Jehangir.
translated by Major Price, we learn that this Prince carried his love ot
wine to such excess, that his daily allowance was 90 tops, each contain.
ing half a seer, equal in the aggro to something short of a gallon.
His Highnea was therefore whatgwe should now calla "five bottle
man," no milk-sop work in a hot climate.
BAD IN DEED.—A worse Prince than King John scarcely
ever disgraced the English throne; and the historian may save himself
the odious task (it has been observed) of drawing up his character, by
referring to the annals of his lite, as son, uncle, and king, by a cnn.
temporary writer, who says, " Hell felt herself defiled by his ad-
mission."

GA mucK.—Our tragedian was once on a visit at Hag-
ley, when news came that a company of players were going to perform at
Birmingham. Lord Lyttleton said to Garrick, " They will hest you
are in the neighbourhood, and will ask you to write an address to the
audience." " Suppose, then," said Garrick, " I begin thus :
You sous a iron, copper, brass and steel,
Who have not heads to think, nor hearts to feel—"
" Oh," cried his Lordship, " if you begin thus, they will hiss the
players off the stage, and pull the howe down." "My Lord." sme.
Garrick, " what is the use of an address, if it does not conic to the
business."

NEW NUTRITIOUS PLANT.—M.IIenri presented to the
Paris Society a specimen of fecula obtained tfrotn the root of a pLut
called amoeba, of the family of Umbellifers, indigenous in the pro-
vinces of Santa Fe of Bogota, and of Curacms in Southern Alllaing
where this root is employed as food. This substance has all the physi•
cal and chemical characters of the true feculre, and poseesses all their
alimentary properties.— Literary Gazette.
FORTUNATE REPLY.DeII Adrets (ft Protestant leader
in the religious wars of Charles IX.) treated the garrison of Month.
noon, which had surrendered at discretion, very cruelly. They re.
presented to him in vain the laws of humanity ; be would divert him-
self with seeing those miserable soldiers precipitated. They were
brought to the top of the platform above the tower. Those silo had
not the courage to precipitate themselves were cast down headlong, and
not so much as their chief was pardoned. Only one soldier was saved
twice he took a run from one end of the platform to the other, as if he
designed to leap further, but stopped short on the brink of the pre-
cipice. Des Adrets ld to hint with a sharp tone, it was enough
to have twice sounded the ford. • The soldier replied boldly, that lie
would give him four times to dolt. These words softened the Baron's
ill-humortr in such a manner, that he gave the brisk fellow quarter
who durst snake use of his jests in such a pressiag extremity.
SUICIDE PREVENTED BY SUDDEN TERROR.--A man
of letters, accustomed to free living, and who had lately been cured of
an intermittent fever, was seised in the autumn with all the horror* of
propensity to suicide, and he often estimated the different ways of de-
stroying himself. A journey which he took to London seemed to in-
crease his melancholy and bis determination to shorten his life. He
fixed upon a late hour of one night, and wect upon one of the bridges.
in order to throw himself into the Thames ; but at the moment int gut
there he was attacked by some pickpockets. He became very angry.
and made violent efforts to escape, which he effected, after being con-
siderably agitated and greatly alarmed. His melancholy immediately
was changed ; he forgot the object of his walk ; and, though lie was
reduced to as great distress as before, he never afterwards felt any emo-
tions of suieide.—Dr. Panel ow Insanity.

MARRIED.
On the 18th inst. at St. James's, Ckrkcnwell, Mr. James Funo,
widower, to Mrs. Peggy Rogers, widow, both of Lewisham, Kent.

DI ED.
Suddenly, on Saturday last, at Wellingore•house, Col. Noel Neville.
son of the late Christopher Noel, Esq. of Bath and Wellingore. Thi
Colonel was hunting on the Saturday In apparently good health.
On Friday evening, the 12th instant, aged 23, Jernims Potter, third
daughter of Peter Potter, Esq. of tionray.house, Walsall, stagbydshire.
—The 22d inst. at Windsor-terrace. 3laida-hill. Maria Cochrane. &fed
28, years, daughter of the late lion. Basil Cochrane, Portman.square.--,
The 22d, inst. at Ash, near Farnham, Surrey, Charles, the infant solve
the Rev A. L. Lambert.—The 23c1 inst. at Kennington, Surrey, Enid!
Jervis, fourth daughter of the late W. Webb, Esq in the 21st ytaref
her age.—The 23d inst Mrs. Elizabeth Vines, wire of S. Vines. of Lin-
coln's-inn, and of Upper Elower.atreet. Fig.—The 24th inst. in the 53,1
year of her age. Ann, the beloved wife of Mr. I'. Jenks, of Fleet-boat.
The 23d inst, J. O.Alurray, surgeon, at his father's house, Church-
street, Allnorks, his IVA year.

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