and all they desire to the other; but like Cassandra, it warns us with a voice that even the sagest discredit too long, and the silliest believe too late. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it; he that has made it his friend, will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. There are two tyrants of this name, the last of whom ruled with such tyranny, that his people grew weary of his government. He, hearing that an old woman prayed for his life, asked her why she did so? She answered, "I have seen the death of several tyrants, and the successor was always worse than the former, then camest thou worse than all the rest; and if thou wert gone, I fear what would become of us, if we should have a worse still." ARTICLE 107. That the wicked prosper in the world, that they come into no misfortune like other folk, neither are they plagued like other men, is a doctrine that divines should not broach too frequently in the present day. For there are some so completely absorbed in present things, that they would subscribe to that blind and blasphemous wish of the marshal and duke of Biron, who, on hearing an ecclesiastic observe, that those whom God had forsaken and deserted as incorrigible, were permitted their full swing of worldly pleasures, the gratification of all their passions, and a long life of sensuality, affluence, and induigence, immediately replied, "That he should be most happy to be so forsaken." ARTICLE 188, I am not so hardy as to affirm, that the French revolution produces little, in the absolute sense of the word. I mean that it produced little if compared with the expectations of mankind, and the probabilities that its first development afforded of its final establishment. The pa pal power, the dynasty of the Bourbons, the freedom of the press, and purity of representation, are resolving themselves very much into the statu quo ante bellum." It is far from improbable, that the results of a "reformation" now going on in Spain, with an aspect far less assuming than the late revolution in France, will be more beneficial both to the present and future times than that gigantic event, which destroyed so much, but which repaired so little, and which began in civil anarbut ended in military despotism. cby, ARTICLE 352. Andrew Casalphinus, chief physician to Pope Clement the 8th, pub lished a book at Pisa, on the 1st of June, 1569, entitled, Questionum Peripateticacum, Libri, V. in which there is a passage, which evident. ly shows that he was thoroughly acquainted with the circulation of the blood: "Idcirco Pulmo per venom arteriis similem, ex dextro cordis ventriculo, fervidum hauriens sanguinem, eumque per anastamosim ateriæ venali reddens, quæ in sinistrum curdis ventriculum tendit, transmisso interrim aere frigido per asperæ arteriæ canales, qui juxta arteriam venalem protenduntur, non tamen osculis communicantes, ut putavit Galenus, solo tactu temperat. Huic sanguinus circulationi ex dextro cordis ventriculo, per pulmones, in sinistrum ejusdem ventricu lum, optime respondent ca quæ ex dissectione apparent. Nam duo sunt vassa in dextrum ventriculum disinentia, duo etiaw in sinistrum. Duorum autem, unum intromittit tantum, alterum educit, membranis eo ingenio compositis." As I have a remark on inoculation in the article to which this note refers, I shall quote an ingenious writer, who says, "When it was observed that the inoculation produced fewer pustules, and did not disfigure the countenance like the natural smallpox, the practice was immediately adopted in those countries, where the beauty of the females constituted an important source of wealth; as for example in Georgia, and Circassia." "The Indians and the Chinese," says the same writer, "have practised inoculation for many ages, in all the empire of the Burmahs, in the island of Ceylon, in Siam, and in Cambodia." ARTICLE 576. Burke was one of the most splendid specimens of Irish talent; but his imagination too often ran away with his judgment, and his interest with both. INDEX, &c. Note. The figures refer not to the Page, but to Academical honours useful, Apostacy, good excuse for it, 157 when, 80 both temptations, 19 316 source of wealth, 270 Atheism, its absurdities, 59 Battles, not decisive of Alexander makes a distinc-Beauty perfect, when, 230 tion not without a differ-Benefits sometimes refined Anger and Confidence, 35 81 make up than minds, 405 Bravery of cowards, what, Britain, her resources a mystery to Napoleon, 501 Antiquity, the Alma Mater Caution, a cunning one, of pedants, 368 559 Celebrity, short road to it, 86 Characters oddly contradic- Church, schisms in it to be |