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unable to vanquish. Her mistress could not help informing her husband of the discovery. They agreed to sound the young man upon the subject; and finding, by degrees, that he had observed the merit of Emilia, they prevailed upon him to pity her situation. He consented; asked to see her (she being previously prepared for it by her mistress); entered into conversation with her; testified the greatest desire to see her health re-established; and even went so far as to say, that if she could recover, he would be happy to marry her. "Marry me!" cried she, raising her arms, and fixing her eyes upon him: "Mar"ry me!" and throwing her head back, she instantly expired.

74. COMPARISON OF ENGLISH AND FRENCH' COINS.

An English pound of gold, containing 5760 grains, is coined into forty-four gui'neas and a half, of twelve parts pure and one alloy. The guinea contains 118 grains, 615 parts, of pure gold, without alloy. The louis-d'or, before 1785, contained 13 grains,

27 parts, English, of pure gold, without alloy. The French grain is to the English, as 121-71 parts to 100.

An English crown contains 429 grains, 68 parts, of pure silver, without alloy. A crown, of six livres French, contains 409 grains, 49 parts, of pure silver, without alloy. The proportion of alloy in silver plate and of other goldsmith's work in France, was, before the Revolution, 11 pennyweights, 10 grains. In England, plate, &c. is of the same standard as the coin: twenty guineas measure a square inch: twenty cubic feet contain more than 238 millions of guineas.

75. WEIGHT OF THE NATIONAL DEBT OF ENG

Land in Ten-Pound Bank-NOTES.

One hundred men could not carry the national debt of England in ten-pound banknotes, 512 of which weigh a pound: so that 242 millions of pounds sterling (which was the amount of the national debt in 1770, when this calculation was made) would weigh 47,650 pounds, which, for a hundred men, would be 473 pounds each.

76. CURIOUS EFFECT OF COMPOUND INTErest.

An English penny placed out at compound interest, at the rate of 5 per cent. at the birth of Jesus Christ, would, in the year 1786, have produced the enormous sum of £. 290,991,000000,000000,000000, 000000,000000. sterling: which would make about 110 millions of our earth in solid gold. At single interest, it would have produced only 7s. 6d. !

77. PLUTARCH'S DEFINITION Of the Beautiful.

Plutarch, in his treatise upon the manner of listening well, speaks thus of the beautiful :—ὡς ἐν ἔργῳ δὲ παντὶ, τὸ μεν καλον ἐκ πολλῶν οἷον ἀριθμῶν εἰς ἕνα καιρὸν ἡκοντων υπό συμμετρίας τινὸς καὶ ἁρμανίας ἐπιτελεῖται, &c. « The beau"tiful is, in all things, the result of several qualities which concur together, and by "their agreement form a perfect har

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mony." This is exactly the system of Father André, Essai sur le Beau:-" Taste "is the sentiment of the Beautiful, consi"dered in objects relating to the Fine "Arts."

78. DEFINITION OF LA MOrgue.

I define la morgue, a composition of pride, severity, gravity, and stupidity, in equal portions.

79. DEFINITION OF FRIENDSHIP. Friendship, says Plutarch, is maintained by virtue, familiarity, and utility.

80. MONADES OF LEIBNITZ.

Leibnitz, convinced of an universal connection between all things in existence, says: "That each being represents the to"tality of beings." The least change that happens in one substance, is a living picture of what happens in all others; and, in the Supreme Intelligence, this is the history of the Universe.

He sees it there concentrate all the re lations which connect the past, the present, and the future. Our soul is one of those representative substances: each of these states must therefore contain an infinite number of other states; each of these perceptions an infinite train of other per

ceptions; each of which is, if we may use the expression, a long argument, the terms of which are brought together and confounded. What grand and magnificent spectacles does this not present to us! An universal harmony; the world forming a whole, where each thing is in its place. Each being is a little mirror of the universe: the universe, a grand mirror of the Infinite Being: in short, our own perfection is comprised in the general perfection. We carry along with us that which we are to be in eternity. This germ dissolves in a series of conditions through which we pass, and shall not cease to pass. It is in this sense that Leibnitz is right in saying, that death is banished from his system. It is only an advantageous development of our faculties, which enlarges the sphere of our knowledge, our activity, and our happiness.

81. ANSWER OF M. d'AGUESSEAU TO HIS SON.

Chancellor d'Aguesseau, with all the learning and understanding possible, was extremely irresolute. His son, who was quite the contrary, one day said to him,

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