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NOTES, &c. &c.

Article 10.

THERE were 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 gladly 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 indulgence, 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 produced 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 developement afforded of its final establishment. The papal 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 anarchy, but ended in military despotism.

Article 352.

Andrew CæsaLPHINUS, chief physician to pope Clement the 8th. published a book at Pisa on the 1st of June 1569, intitled, Questionum Peripateticarum, Libri V., in which there is this passage, which evidently shows that he was thoroughly acquainted with the circulation of the blood: "Idcirco Pulmo per venam arteriis similem, ex dextro cordis ventriculo, fervidum hauriens sanguinem, eumque per anastamosim arteriæ venali reddens, quæ in sinistrum cordis ventriculum tendit, transmisso interim aere frigido per asperæ arteriæ canales, qui juxta ar teriam venalem protenduntur, non tamen osculis communicantes, ut putavit Galenus, solo tactu temperat. Huic sanguinis circulationi ex dextro cordis ventriculo, per pulmones, in sinistrum ejusdem ventriculum, optime respondent ca quæ ex dissectione apparent. Nam duo sunt vasa in dextrum ventriculum desinentia, duo etiam 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 small pox, 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

Note.-The Figures refer not to the Page, but to the Articles.

ACADEMICAL honours useful, when, Caution, a cunning one, 559.

Cowardice most incorrigible, when,
44.

Apostacy, good excuse for it, 157. Coxcombs seldom alone, 77.

Bodies more difficult to make up Different reports of travellers, why,

living ones, more flattered,
but less praised than they de
serve, 545.

How attained,

Opinions, when they may be chang-
ed without suspicion, 102.

213. The clearest the most Opponents best answered, how,

its ills how to bear them, 95. Pedantry wrong by rules, 48.

Means, great, seldom combined Posthumous charity, 341.

with great measures, 186.
Memory the friend of wit, 293.
Measures, if unpopular, how to
carry them, 415.
Metals, two omnipotent, where,