I had forgotten that only the signature was in his hand-writing. However, in the signature of the first letter, we found an error in the orthography; and, strictly speaking, two: so that I gained my wager. It is un

necessary for me to point them out, for they must be obvious to every one.

89. BON-MOT OF THE CHEVALIER GATTI.

The Chevalier Gatti, a skilful physician, once said to the Grand Duke of Tuscany; "When a person is sick, it is a dispute be"tween the patient and the disease: a phy. "sician is called in, and he comes, with a

great stick in his hand, to decide the quarrel: if it falls upon the disease, he "cures the patient; if upon the patient, it "kills him."

90.

ANCIENTS AND MODERns.

We live upon the Ancients; we squeeze them; we get all we can out of them, and swell out our works with theirs: and when we become authors, and think ourselves able to stand alone, we rise against them, and ill-use them: like those pert children,

who having grown strong with the milk which they have sucked, afterwards beat

91. LORD LANSDOWNE'S ANSWER TO THE ABBÉ MOREllet.

The Abbé Morellet, at the commencement of the French Revolution, seemed to be among the most zealous in its favour. He wrote against the nobility; and both by his speeches and writings, shewed himself

one of the most ardent defenders of the National Assembly: but when, by the proceedings of the Assembly, he saw himself deprived of his benefice, his pension, and a provision of six thousand livres (2501.), which had been granted him for writing a Dictionary of Commerce, he began to blame the conduct of the Assembly. He then wrote a long letter to Lord Lansdowne, in which he complained much of the reverses he had experienced upon which Lord Lansdowne answered him, "That he ought to look up<< on himself as a soldier wounded in a vic"torious army."

92. FRIENDSHIP,

Friendship is the union of two bodies by a single soul, or one soul in two bodies:Μία ψυχὴ δυὸ σώμασι ἐνοικοῦσα, according to Aristotle, in Diogenes Laërtius. Plutarch has said nearly the same thing :Μίας ψυχής ἐν πλείοσι διῃρημὴνης σώμασι. Vol. i. page 167, line 19. edit. Reisk.

93. FRIENDSHIP.

St. Augustin (Confess. lib. iv. ch. vi.) very strongly expresses the regret which the death of his friend caused him: "Hav "ing always considered him as another self, "I was astonished to find that I was living "after his death: I felt that his soul and "mine had been only one soul in two bo"dies. Life was horrible to me: only half "of me seemed to be alive; and, neverthe"less, I was afraid to die, lest he whom

together I had so much loved should die "entirely."

94. DIFFERENT DISPOSITIONS OF AGES.

At twenty we kill pleasure; at thirty we

taste it; at forty we husband it; at fifty we seek it; and at sixty we regret it.

95. ESTEEM In Love.

The Countess Amelia de Boufflers said, "There can be no esteem in love; for what "is the end of a lover, but to make her "whom he loves lose every right to his "esteem?"-This is very just, provided it be applied only to the love of gallantry.

96. SIR THOMAS ROBINSON.

Sir Thomas Robinson, who was tall and thin, one day asked Lord Chesterfield to make some verses on him; upon which his Lordship immediately made the following distich:

Unlike my subject, now, shall be my song;
It shall be witty, and it sha'n't be long.

97. PRETTY DEVICE.

It is a pretty device which I have seen upon a medal representing the wind blowing upon a weather-cock. The weathercock says, Si tu ne changes, je ne tourne:— If you do not change, I shall not turn."

98. MAXIM Of Marcus Aurelius.

The unfortunate events of our life may be turned to our advantage, by our constancy in supporting them.

This is the opinion of Marcus Aurelius recited in No. 15, but differently expressed.

99. BON-MOT of the Cardinal de Retz.

The Kings of France, said the Cardinal de Retz, have not thought themselves degraded by subjecting themselves to their own ordonnances: like God, who always obeys what he has once commanded.

100. FINE EXPRESSION OF WIELAND.

What a fine expression is this passage in Wieland's Agathon! "I enjoy that feli"city which gives to days the rapidity of "moments, and to moments the value of "ages."

101. BON-MOT OF THE ABBÉ RAYNAL.

The Abbé Gagliani and the Abbé Raynal