CHAPTER CLXXIX.-p. 93.

THE SUBJECT OF ANAGRAMS CONTINUED; A TRUE OB

SERVATION WHICH MANY FOR WANT OF OBSERVA

TION WILL NOT DISCOVER TO BE SUCH, VIZ., THAT

Ha gran forza una vecchia opinione;

E bisogna grand' arte, e gran fatica,
A cavarla del capo alle persone.

BRONZINO PITTORE.

XXV

CHAPTER CLXXX.-p. 101.

.

THE DOCTOR'S IDEAS OF LUCK, CHANCE, ACCIDENT, FOR

*Έστι γαρ ώς αληθώς επίφθεγμα το αυτόματον, ανθρώπων ως έτυχε και αλογίστως φρονούντων, και τον μεν λόγον αυτών μη καταλαμβανόντων, διά δε την ασθένειαν της καταλήψεως, αλόγως οιoμένων διατετάχθαι ταύτα, ών τον λόγον ειπείν ουκ έχουσιν.

CONSTANT. ORAT. AD SANCT. CET. C. VΙΙ. Deformity is either natural, voluntary, or adventitious, be ing either caused by God's unseen Providence, (by men nicknamed, chance,) or by men's cruelty.”

FULLER's HOLY STATE, B. iii. c. 15.

ING HOGARTH's PORTRAIT. — CAST OF THE EYE À

If thou beest not so handsome as thou wouldest have been thank God thou art not more unhandsome than thou art. 'Tis His mercy thou art not the mark for passenger's fingers to point at, an Heteroclite in nature, with some member defective or redundant. Be glad that thy clay cottage hath all the necessary forms thereto belonging, though the outside be not so fairly plaistered as some others.”—FULLER'S HOLY STATE, iii. c. 15.

A BROKEN SHIN AND INVENTION OF A SHIN-SHIELD.

Res fisci est, ubicunque natat. Whatsoever swims upon any water, belongs to this exchequer.

JEREMY TAYLOR. Preface to the Duct. Dub.

CHAPTER CLXXXIII.-P. 133.

VIEWS OF OLD AGE.

MONTAGNE, DANIEL CORNEILLE,

LANGUET, PASQUIER, DR. JOHNSON, LORD CHESTER

But the holy place of life, the chapel of ease
For all men's wearied miseries?

MASSINGER.

CHAPTER CLXXXIV.-p. 148.

FURTHER OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING

OLD AGE.

BISHOP REYNOLDS. OPINION OF THE DOCTOR CON-
CERNING BEASTS AND MEN. M. DE CUSTINE. THE

WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US. WORDSWORTH.
WALTER RALEIGH.

SIR

In these reflections, which are of a serious, and somewhat of a melancholy cast, it is best to indulge; because it is always of use to be serious, and not unprofitable sometimes to be melancholy. FREEMAN'S SERMONS.

CHAPTER CLXXXV.-p. 157.

EVOLVEMENTS. ANALOGIES.

ANTICIPATIONS.

I have heard, how true

I know not, most physicians as they grow
Greater in skill, grow less in their religion;
Attributing so much to natural causes,

That they have little faith in that they cannot
Deliver reason for this Doctor steers

Another course.

MASSINGER.