After a sanguinary combat of about an hour, this redoubt was carried, with the loss of twelve hundred men, who remained dead in the entrenchments: and, next day, when Napoleon was reviewing the sixty-first regiment, which had suffered the greatest loss, he asked the colonel what had become of one of his battalions?" SIRE! (replied he) It is in the redoubt!"

Mr. LOCKE uses often for frequent, see sec. 66, on Education-" And see, by often trials, what turn they take." In the same work, he says, sec. 94, "And finding it a quite other thing."

MARTIN LUTHER thus elegantly expresses himself about the Catholics: The Papists are all asses; put them in whatever form you please, boiled, roasted, baked, fried, skinned, beat, hashed, they are always the same-asses! The pope, (he says) was born out of the devil, full of devils, lies, blasphemies, and idolatries; he is Antichrist, the robber of churches, the ravisher of virgins, the greatest of pimps, the governor of Sodom,' &c. &c.

The editor of the LITERARY GAZETTE, No. 49, tells us, "that Miss Kelly has been assailed in Dublin by a maniac, who followed her home from the theatre. It is strange (says he) that this actress should not only attract the admiration of all sane persons, but so peculiarly excite idiots and madmen." The editor then is pleased to add, "It may appear to be a paradox, but we could support a thesis upon it, and trace this surprising effect to the matchless nature, and consequent pathos of her dramatic performances." Now this may be meant as a superinflated compliment to Miss Kelly; but the English of it is, to desire people to stay away when she performs; for, sane and insane, wise and ideotic, they must be, or go mad perforce, according to the thesis the editor "could support."

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MERCIER, in his Fragments, vol. 1, p. 106, has the following, under the head of Individual Liberty :-" By the laws of equilibrium, we are enabled to support a weight of about thirty-one thousand pounds, well distributed over the whole surface of our body; and we cannot stir without raising this enormous weight. Thus, environed by a multitude of laws, that which secures to us individual liberty is the counterpoise of all the others; and, without it, we should be every instant crushed."

Sir THOMAS MORE's Life of Edward V., 1641, is entitled his "Pityful Life of Edward V."

A French writer, of the sixteenth century, NICOLAS DE MONTAND, (Miroir des Francais,) expresses himself in a lively

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manner on the nakedness for which he blames his countrywo"As for your women, (says he,) they have learned the fashion of the soldiers of these times, who make a shew of their gilded and shining breasts: when they are mustered for going to mass, or to orchards or gardens, or other private places, which shall be nameless, they shew their naked breasts, their diaphragms, heart, lungs, and other pectoral parts, that have a perpetual motion, which those good ladies move by rule and compass, like a watch, or rather like a smith's bellows, that kindles the fire of a forge. It is just so with our ladies, who, with the blowing or respiration of their lungs, kindle a fire in the hearts of the Heliogabalists of our court, who are already but too much effeminated and heated in their desires. But, to inflame them the better; or to burn them altogether, our court Medeas invert all the arts that nature could produce for the good of mankind, and convert them into lascivious, infamous, and base, things."

At the trial of the regicides, HENRY MARTEN, who was one, said, "He did not deny the fact, but that he did not do it maliciously, murderously, or traiterously." Upon which, Mr. Solicitor general, addressing the bench, said, "My lord! he thinks a man may sentence the king to death, and sign a warrant for his execution, meekly, innocently, charitably, and honestly."

NEWTON (Bishop of Bristol,) speaking of his marriage, said, it was the wisest thing he ever did in his life, and that she was the most proper wife for him in the world; indeed, (he adds,) she more than answered his warmest wishes.--(Life, vol. 1, p. 81.

It is surprising what ridiculous associations are made by those who attempt to speak in a language they do not, but pretend to, understand. Sir William Hamilton, conversing with an Italian lady at Naples, who would persuade herself she had learned English, asked her how many children she had?" I have done seven," said the lady.

Mr. PINKERTON, in his Modern Geography, second edition, page 571 of vol 2, has the following most extraordinary passage--"The apes and the monkies may be said to possess the sovereignty of the islands, (the Celebes,) being distinguished, as with us, into those who wear tails, and those who do not. The common people of this singular empire walk on four legs, while the noble apes are distinguished by walking on two; and the white are more dangerous than the black or the brown. This mighty aristocracy has declared war against women: the

first who perceives a human creature of that sex, assembles his companions with loud cries, and, after having seized and abused their unhappy prey, they strangle her, and tear her to pieces. The Eves of Celebes are chiefly protected by the serpents who pursue the apes as their favourite prey. But the natives are obliged to be constantly on their guard, to defend their women and their fields from animals equally lascivious and voracious."

Counsellor PHILLIPS in his Recollections of Curran, says page 19, "There is attached to it, (Dublin College,) amongst other advantages, a most magnificent library, of which the regulations were so rigid, and the public hours so few, that it had become, to the externs particularly, almost entirely useless."

"There are (says Mr. SAMUEL PEGGE) Some few words often heard by us in the Church-service, and in Holy Writ, which, according to our present ideas annexed to them, are very unlucky in their situations. I do not mean (says he) to jest on so serious a subject; but, at the same time, cannot conceive that above one in one thousand can possibly know the meaning of 'Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings;' though all utter it, with a supposition, perhaps, that it extends to our mis-doings. Such mental interpretation will do no harm. It rather means, according to one sense of prævino, 'go before,' or 'guide us.'"

"Pray, (said Mr. Spence,) what is this asphodil of Homer?" "Why, (replied POPE,) I believe, if one was to say the truth, 'twas nothing else but that poor yellow flower that grows about our orchards; and, if so, the verse might be thus translated in English:

the stern Achilles

Stalk'd through a mead of daffodillies.”

PLINY, 1. 7, c. 52, says that Hermotimus, the Clazomenian, was subject to trances; and that, when he revived, he would relate such things at a distance performed, that none could tell of but such as were present. At last, being in one of his trances, his enemies seized upon his body and burnt it; by which the returning soul was disappointed of its usual place of residence and retreat.

Mr. PENNANT, describing the water of Derwentwater, observes, that "it is subject to violent agitations, and often without any apparent cause. The weather was calm, yet the waves ran a great height, and the boat was tossed violently, with what is called a bottom-wind." Now the very idea, as well as ex

pression, must have proceeded from his reading of Cotton's Virgil Travsetie, wherein Eolus and his gang trouble the Trojans amazingly in the same way. From Swift we might have expected it. Again, Mr. PENNANT, speaking of Corallines, says, "They were so admirably managed by my friend the late Mr. Ellis, to whom Linnæus gave the title of Lynceus Ellisius: but for some years before his death, by too great an exertion of his Lyncean faculties, he was totally deprived of even the common blessing of sight." This is punning about a friend's misfortune, which we are persuaded Mr. P. could not do designedly. (Dover Tour, vol 2, p. 76.) The same author, speaking of an animal bought of Mr. Brookes, at Somers' Town, who deals in such live-stock, oddly designates him as an animal merchant: he might nearly as well have said, animal manufacturer, because it was of the cub of a wolf and a dog he was speaking.-(Scotland, I. 160.) Mr. PENNANT, in his History of London, invariably puts for the superlative least, lest; and quotes Dr. Wallis as his authority.

Nothing can exceed the strange mode of expression adopted by the QUAKERS, though a sect ever to be admired. They call churches steeple-houses, though they are presumed to know what they are; coaches are leathern conveniences; they clip and disfigure the king's English into most ungrammatical postures, theeing and thouing us with all the stiffness of unyielding buckram. Still this quaintness of expression used by the Quakers was not always so quiet, peaceable, and orderly, as now. One of this class, a primitive enthusiast, whose name was Fisher, indulged himself in the succeeding flow of vituperation at Dr. Owen. The Doctor was thus addressed by friend Fisher:-"Thou fiery fighter and green-headed trumpeter; thou hedge-hog and grinning dog; thou bastard, that tumbled out of the mouth of the Babylonish bawd; thou mole; thou tinker; thou lizard; thou bell of no metal, but the tone of a kettle; thou wheelbarrow; thou whirlpool; thou whirligig; O thou firebrand; thou adder and scorpion; thou louse; thou cow-dung; thou moon-calf; thou ragged tatterdemalion; thou Judas; thou livest in philosophy and logic, which are of the devil!" (Vide Cotton Mather.)

Dr. ROBERTSON, says in his History of Charles V., vol. 4, page 362,"But I afterwards found that he was a man of the greatest dissolution in the world."

ROBINET, in his work, De la Nature,' speaking of the intellect, expresses it by oval fibres ;-of memory, by undulated or spiral fibres ;-of will, by fretted fibres ;-of pleasure and pain, by bundles of sensibility!

Count RUMFORD gives us, in the following extract, (Philosophical Essays, vol. 1, p. 251,) the useful hint of eating a hot hasty-pudding by gradual advances, circumventing the outwork, and storming the parapet. These are his words-"THE HASTY-PUDDING being spread out equally on a plate while hot, an excavation is made in the middle of it with a spoon, into which excavation a piece of butter, as large as a nutmeg, is put, and upon it a spoonful of brown sugar, &c.; the butter, being soon heated by the heat of the pudding, mixes with the sugar, and forms a sauce, which, being confined in the excavation, occupies the middle of the plate!" Thus far for the array::-Now for the battle. "Dip each spoonful in the same, before it is carried to THE MOUTH, care being had, in taking it up, to begin on the outside, and near the BRIM OF THE PLATE, and to APPROACH the CENTRE BY GRADUAL ADVANCES, in order not to DEMOLISH too Soon the EXCAVATION, which forms the RESERVOIR of the sauce!" This, gentle reader, is the philosophy of hasty-pudding, or rather of eating it.

Most of the despatches of Admirals have begun very piously -"It has pleased God"—" God has been pleased"-"God," &c. But the commencement of Lord RODNEY's public letter to Mr. Stephens, on obtaining his victory over Compte de Grasse, comprehended a new idea of Providence; for he stated that, "It had pleased God, out of his divine Providence, to grant to his majesty's arms a most complete victory over the fleet of his enemy."

Dr. SHARP, of Hart Hall, Oxford, had a ridiculous manner of prefacing every thing he said with the words, I say. An under graduate having, as the doctor was informed, mimicked. him in his peculiarity, he sent for him to give him a jobation, which he thus began: "I say-they say you say-I say-I say;"-when, finding the ridiculous combination in which his speech was involved, he concluded by bidding the young satirist begone to his room.-(Grose's Olio.)

SOUTHERLAND, describing Bilberti's famous picture of Clorinda, at Leghorn, in which, just disencumbered of her armour, she sweetly reposes in puris naturalibus, while Tancred is looking on, our author says, "I confess to you, that, like him, I dared not suffer my eyes to wander below her neck, lest her's should open and avenge the profanation. An adverse look from such an angel would be more insupportable than the most tormenting death!" And again, when the gallant captain sees a Mary Magdalen, who "displays a neck which even an anchoret would forever hang upon. She herself with all the earnestness of her supplication, seems scarce to dare hope to