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two, tree year ago me had for my convenience discharge myself from attending [Enter a Foot boy] as Matré D'ostel to a person of condition in Parie; it hapen after de dispatch of my little affairé

Foot-b. That is, after h'ad spent his money, Sir.

Duf. Jan foutré de Lacque; me vil have de vip and de belle vor your breeck, rogue.

Foot-b. Sir, in a word, he was a Jackpudding to a Mountebank, and turned off for want of wit: my master picked him up before a puppit-show, mumbling a half-penny custard, to send him with a letter to the post.

Duf. Morbleau, see, see de insolence of de foot-boy English, bogre, rascale, you lie, begar I vill cutté your Troaté. [Exit Foot-boy. Clark. He's a rogue; on with your story, Monsieur.

Duf. Matré Clark, I am your ver

humble serviteur; but begar me have no patience to be abusé. As I did say, after de dispatché of my Affairé, van day being idele, vich does producé de mellanchollique, I did valké over de new bridge in Parie, and to devertise de time, and my more serious toughté, me did look to see de marrioneté, and de jack-pudding, vich did play hundred pretty trické, time de collation vas come; and vor I had no company, I vas unvilling to go to de Cabareté, but did buy a darriolé, littel custardé vich did satisfie my appetite ver vel: in dis time young Monsieur de Grandvil (a jentelman of ver great quality, van dat vas my ver good friendé, and has done me ver great and insignal faveure) come by in his caroché, vid dis Sir Frolick, who did pention at the same academy, to learn de language, de bon mine, de great horse, and many oder trické : Monsieur seeing me did make de bowe, and did beken me come to him; he did tellé

me dat de Englis jentelman had de Letré vor de posté, and did entrea:é me (if I had de oppertunity) to see de letrè deliver: he did tellé me too, it vold be ver great obligation: de memory of de faveur I had received from his famelyé, beside de inclination I naturally have to servé de strangeré, made me to returné de complemen vid ver great civility, and so I did take de letré and see it deliveré: Sir Frollick perceiving (by de management of dis affairé) dat 1 was d'esprit, and of Vitté, did entreaté me to be his serviteur; me did take d'affection to his personé, and vas contenté to live vid him, to counsel and advise him. You see now de lie of de bougre de lacque Englishe, Morbleu.

175.

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When I was at Malta, there happened a drunken squabble on the road- between Valette and St. Antonio, between a party of soldiers, and another of sailors. They

were brought before me on the next morning, and the great effect, which their intoxication had produced on their. memory, and the little or no effect on their courage in giving evidence, may be seen by the following specimen. The soldiers swore, that the sailors were the first aggressors, and had assaulted them with the following words" D-n your eyes! &c. who stops the line of march there?" The sailors with equal vehemence and unanimity averred, that the soldiers were the first aggressors, and had burst in on them, calling out "Heave to, you lubbers! or we'll run you down.”

176. Force of Habit.

An Emir had bought a left eye of a glass eye-maker, supposing that he would be able to see with it. The man begged him to give it a little time: he could not expect that it would see all at once as well as the right eye, which had been for so many years in the habit of it.

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The Phoenix lives a thousand years, "a secular bird of ages:" and there is never more than one at a time in the world. Yet Plutarch very gravely informs us, that the brain of the phoenix is a pleasant bit, but apt to occasion the head-ache. By the bye, there are few styles that are not fit for something. I have often wished to see Claudian's splendid Poem on the Phoenix translated into English verse in the elaborate rhyme and gorgeous diction of Darwin. Indeed, Claudian throughout would translate better than any of the ancients.

178. Memory and Recollection. Beasts and babies remember, i. e. re.

cognize man alone recollects.

distinction was made by Aristotle.

179. Aliquid ex Nihilo.

This

In answer to the Nihil e nihilo of the atheists, and their near relations, the

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