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"THE Othomacas, one of the rudest of the Orinoco tribes, suppose themselves descended from a pile of stones upon the top of a rock called Barraguan, and that they all return to stone as they came from it; so that this mass of rock is composed of their forefathers.

THE system of lying was not practised more impudently by Buonaparte's government, than by the Opposition papers and the Opposition speakers.

JOHNSON once said of Derrick, "he may do very well as long as he can outrun his character, but the moment his character gets up with him, it is all over." Alas! character now goes for nothing with the mob, or even the people in this country.

"Est enim metus magister longè optimus maximequè opportunus."-GREG. NAZIAN

ZEN.

ALFRED's police.-TURNER, Vol. 2, p.304. WORKS of fiction monstrous in kind, devilish in feeling, damnable in purpose.

EVERY man his own king, his own priest, and his own God.

THE American war destroyed that amicable feeling which till then had for half a century prevailed between the Church and the Dissenters. In Abp. Secker's days,

e. g.

"MAIS on feint de ne rien croire, afin de tout permettre," was said of the Dragonnades in Poictou, and may be said of the Catostreet Conspiracy, &c.

A. D. 1821. In the course of thirty-nine years the Catholics in England are said to have increased sevenfold. Their present

numbers are about 500,000.

I suspect this is a line from the Carmen de l'itá suâ, v. 47.

Φόβος γὰρ ἦγεν, ὃς μέγας διδάσκαλος.

Tom. ii. p. 678. Ed. Fol. 1840.
J. W. W.

"LA multitude est plus frappé de ce qu'on lui ordonne que de ce qu'on lui prouve. Les hommes en général, ont besoin d'être fixês: il leur faut des maximes plutôt que des démonstrations."-PORTALIS.

See this paper of Portalis. L. GOLDSMITH, vol. 1, p. 281, &c. concerning a settled mode of belief. It contains much excellent wisdom excellently expressed.

REFORMATION.

Necessity admitted-the consequence of fraud and falsehood.

Errors-in abolishing the Regulars. Purgatory. Calvinism.

Iconoclasm. The Cross.

Croyland and Ely still worse for the Reformation.

than with the intellect of a Dodo. YOUR great Whig landholder is a Levia

REVOLUTION Would soon produce malaria in England. The condition of the Bedford Level would be more advantageous to coot, teal, widgeon, and wild ducks, than to the goosey goosey ganders of the house of Russell.

BEGGARS' Opera in Heroics. Lord B.

No happiness but in a settled state of things.

"OMNE quod exit in hum."

SLAVERY.

Feudal dependence. Manufactures.

TREASURE SO frequently concealed in India, that whenever the foundation of a

house is to be dug, officers of government

attend to seize one, if it should be found.

(This in Tranquebar.)

EVIL of having introduced our system of laws in India.-MURRAY, Hist. Acc. vol. 2, p. 320.

Justice is defied in consequence, and the country at the mercy of most merciless banditti.

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QUESTION of improvement examined. Scene, the ruined village. Small farmers and peasantry, certes worsened. ManuServants an altered

END of all disputed successions with the factures a new class. Union of the Roses.

THE old denominations of small coin becoming too small.

MANUFACTURING populace in Flanders. But the higher classes in those days, Comines says, were good people, and sorely disliked the mutinous spirit of the community. Our mischief lies with the half-educated class, the agitators.

CONSEQUENCE of the struggle for Reformation in different countries. The League. Accidental effect of the Inquisition.

No one put to death for heresy while Sir T. More was chancellor.

DESTRUCTION of buildings began with the Reformation, when stronger passions were at work than in the successive war of which Comines speaks.

A GOOD remark of Marlborough's upon Lord Halifax, "if he had no other fault but his unreasonable vanity, that alone would be capable of making him guilty of any fault."

GROWTH of good government through the wreck of its institutions. Difference in Iceland.

one.

Tradesmen.

Quoad marriage,

Condition of women. worsened, and quoad education, not so good as in Henry VIII.'s time.

Dr. Johnson, Boswell says, 66 was willing to speak favourably of his own age: and indeed maintained its superiority in every respect, except in its reverence for government; the relaxation of which he imputed as its grand cause to the shock which our monarchy received at the Revolution, though necessary; and secondly, to the timid concessions made to faction by successive administrations in the reign of his present Majesty, George III."-Vol. 3, p.3.

"THERE is a strange rout made about deep play," said JOHNSON; "whereas you have many more ruined by adventurous trade, and yet we do not hear such an outcry against it."

OPINIONS Concerning the mercantile profession by Cicero, and Plutarch's character of it in eastern times. - WADDING. vol. 1, p. 17. ESSENES. Basnage, vol. 1, p. 536.

"IN colonizing new countries provision should be made for towns, and those limited in size. See Henry the Fowler's regulation in Germany.-TURNER, vol. 2, p. 350.

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Ar the Hospital General in Rouen, old people are permitted on making a calculated payment to become pensioners comfortably resident in it, in various classes, according to their rank in life.

LATENT dirt in a frost. So with the vices and ill qualities of those whom we meet only in society.

VAGABOND laws.

MANUFACTURES in their wholesome state.

ALFRED's police.

ALFRED's law against public liars.

ALL handicraft trades first exercised by slaves.

swallow this? yes, and more too, if needs be; HOBBES says, "Could the city of London palate, nor taste of right and wrong." London, you know, has a great belly, but no

ROGUES.-HOLINSHED, vol. 1, p. 309.

THE Spencean system is radically the same as that in Hindostan of the Zemindars and Rayuts, and would end in making every landholder a tenant at rack rent, by way of relieving the subject from taxes; it seizes upon all estates in toto.

HENRY VIII. said truly to his Parliament, "that no king or kingdom was safe but where the king had ability to live of his own, and able to defend his kingdom upon any sudden invasion or insurrection, and to reward his well deserving servants."

EVILS which arose from ignorance and withholding of the scriptures—contrasted with those which arose from ignorance and the use of them.

WHEN the feudal system of education in great houses became obsolete, nothing suc

ceeded it in Portugal, and boys of course became little men.

STEAM engine. Mail coach. Arkwright. Watt.

THE only means by which such countries as Naples and Spain can be regenerated without a long and dreadful age of suffering, is by an enlightened king or minister possessing his entire confidence and support.

PRINCIPLES of order and association turned against society.

We have rats from Norway and cockroaches from the West Indies, bugs and blasphemy from London.

A LAW nicety kept the lawyers R. NORTH, Vol. 1, p. 185.

men only should have been discharged at first who wished their discharge, others kept on for one year at least, till they could find employment for themselves.

Free passage given to as many as chose to go out and colonize; officers tempted to colonize by grants of land, passage, and their half pay, either by drawing for it, or ! in stores, &c. upon the spot, at English prices, for a certain number of years, till the land could well support them; and till that term, the half pay to be continued to their widows and children in case of death.

THE present race are what Johnson emphatically called bottomless Whigs. Their attachment to the most sacred institutions of the country is so lax, that no person knows how far the loose tether of their cold.-principles extends.

"IT had been a prime jest," says ROGER NORTH (Vol. 1, p. 284), “if, under the pretence of a defence, the criminal should be allowed to vent seditious libels, full of mutiny and reflection, to amuse the people, and so to come forth and be published in print." And so "he took unto the treason trade." -Ibid. p. 285.

By Lord Keeper Guildford's advice, counter-pamphleteers, Sir Roger, &c. were set up, as a better way than prosecutors, "they soon wrote the libellers out of the pit, and during that king's life, the trade of libels, which before had been in great request, fell to nothing."-Ibid. p. 301.

A TIME of long continued deterioration every where, except in arts; the light being only preserved among the Jews. Note this lapse from the patriarchal and golden age, in the second Dialogue.

THREE cries occasioned the acts after the cheap bread, retrenchment, and a metallic currency.

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IN Utopia, "extra senatum aut comitia publicè, de rebus communibus inire consilium, capitale habetur." - P. 129. This was a precaution against tyranny.

BROUGHAM.

"While these terrified petitioners were brooding over the dangers of Catholic admission to Parliament, it might afford some comfort, as diversion to their fears, to know how slight a phrase it was which prevented Roman Catholic Bishops from sitting in the Upper House, but which precluded Jewish Rabbis, or even the great Mufti himself, from coming into Parliament, either by creation from the Crown, or election by the people. (Hear! and laughter.) It was barely the accidental insertion of the word Christian, in one of the tests, which prevented that consummation, dreadful as it would be to the good men of Kent. Neither the Mahometan nor the Rabbi had any objection to the oaths; they could digest the supremacy, the allegiance, and the abjuration of Catholic doctrines; nothing kept them out but the fortunate insertion of all this I promise upon the faith of a Christian.""-Courier, Saturday, May

In reducing an army after a war, those 11, 1822.

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HOBBES says, in his Dialogues concerning the Common Law, "perhaps the greatest cause of multitude of suits is this, that for want of registering of conveyances of land (which might easily be done in the townships where the lands lie) a purchase cannot easily be had which will not be litigious."

MANUFACTURERS seditious when provisions are at a high price: the agriculturists when they are cheap, and both classes showing their total want of reverence or attachment towards the institutions of their country.

WRITS" de inquirendo de prodigo" 1proposed in that very sensible tract called England's Wants.-SOMERS' Tracts, vol. 9, p. 223.

fore the revolution.-See MRS. CAREY'S Tour, p. 347.

HAYLEY says, "I remember to have heard it said by a late anatomist, in a professional discourse on the female frame, that it almost appeared an act of cruelty in nature to produce such a being as woman."

IN a Monarchy there certainly is something more like a moral responsibility, more like a conscience than in a Republic, as Dryden says,

"Well Monarchies may own Religious

name,

But States are Atheists in their very frame, They share a sin: and such proportions fall That like a stink, 'tis nothing to them all."

SEE a horrid passage concerning original sin in SOUTH, vol. 7, p. 131.

AN opinion that departed spirits do not see what passes on earth.-Ibid. p. 346.

Books composed without a grain of research or a pennyweight of reason, a scruple of conscience: a dram of impudence or of slander suffices.

SOCIETY with books.-ERAS. Epist. p. 297.

OPPOSITION like the image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream, from the proudest Whigs down to the most desperate levellers.

"IN Cretâ Iouis simulacrum confingi certum est sine auribus, quoniam principem uirum, et omnibus late dominantem audire addecet neminem, sed id demum persequi quod dictat rationis examen, et iustitiæ nusquam præflorata integritas.

MR. HUME" the great toe of the assembly." "LAWS and church discipline.". LORD Cœlius, li. 6." BROOKE, p. 40.

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"In quibus, neque tibi neque mihi satis

OWENITE Communities in Auvergne be- feci, propterea quod rei quæ non ratione

The Flemings put the estates of prodigals, as they did those of lunatics, under guardians. See suprà, p. 616.-J. W. W.

nititur, ratio nulla reddi potest.”—SCALIGER. Ep. 85, p. 220.

“LITTERÆ quid aliud sunt hodiè, quam

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