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ng on the festal board. When the ladies had retired, and the Burgundy had ta

e: Mr Escot, it stands with you. No h

ctar itsel. Ye hae saretainly discovered the tarrestrial pa

ould not have looked for in so staunch a supporter of church and state. Milk and honey was the pure food of the

. But man was then a very different animal to what he now is: he had not the faculty of speech; he was not encumbered with clothes; he lived in the open air; his first step out of which, as Hamlet truly observes, is into his grave1. His first dwellings, of course, were the hollows of trees and rocks.

original man was not encumbered with clothes, and that he lived in the open air; but,

he advantage of being inspired; but when I indulge myself with a ramble in the fields of speculation, and attempt to deduce what is probable and rational from the sourc

ng. Push abou

enetrating into the arcana of universal motion - to that of a Locke, unravelling the labyrinth of mind - to that of a Lavoisier, detecting the minutest combinations of matter, and reducing a

xistence of Milton, the victim of persecution, poverty, blindness, and neglect? The records of literature demonstrate that Happiness and Intelligence are seldom sisters. Even if it were

nto the truth of things, and, in its own peaceful contemplations, rises superior to the world

material change in his relative situation to other individuals. Unluckily for the rest of your argument, the understanding of literary people is for the most part exalted, as you express it, not so much by the love of truth and v

ced these words, rested very innoce

ude, sir, I pres

is impossible I can allude to your review, when I a

ghtshade, and Mr Mac Laure

yric and defamation are sold, wholesale, retail, and for exportation. I am not inclined to be a

in panegeeric: but, frae the manner in which ye speak o' the first creetics an' schol

of speaking the truth on all occasions; and it seldom happens that the

perhaps, sir, an enemy

I should be a better fri

Headlon

e the liberty to inquire int

youthful mind the habit of thinking for itself; that it delivers partial opinions, and thereby misleads the judgment; that it is never condu

Ye ken, sir,

e honourably, naturally, j

notions of honour an' justice: there is a wee defference am

admitted that one of the ingredien

ye mun observe, sir, every mon has his ain parteecular feelings of what is gude, an' beautifu', an' consentaneous to his ain indiveedual nature, an' desires to see every thing aboot him in that parteecul

nd clumps, with a belt of trees at the circum

for his ain sel: an' the other mon shall divide

hem, and cover his land with a simple, innocent, and smiling population, who

wi' seeing people happy an' comfortable. It is aunly a matter of indiveedual feeling. A paisant saves a mon's life for the same reason that a hero or a footpad cuts his thrapple: an' a pheelosopher del

Reverend Doctor. Doctor, t

ter. It is an error of

of his ain system, an' endaivours as much as possible to

, at one time to take the part of the people against their oppressors,

your ain parteecular feelings o' the moral an' poleetical fetness o' things: the second is, when they happen to be, as it were, in a state of exceetabeelity, an' ye think ye can get a gude price for your commodity, by flingin' in a leetle seasoning o' pheelanthropy an' republican speerit; the third is, when ye think ye can bully the menestry into gieing ye a place or a pansion to hau'd

ng. Off with

ews, and those views are determined by the organisation of his skull. A man in whom the organ of benevolence is not developed, cannot be benevolent: he in w

y to the love of self, and consistent only in their aim to deceive, are always ac

um. Very

very copious specimens of the organs

ness, and covetiveness. You may add, i

of building; which I contend to be not a

ket, and placed it on the table to the great surprise of the company.)- This was the skull o

phisticated man was by no means constructi

ree of life. Unquestionably. Till

organ of constructiveness was added to his a

, since the propensity which has led him to building

he skull.) Memento mori. C

the practice of adhibiting skulls at their banquets, and sometimes little skeleto

Gaster. Sound doct

e of vinous spirit has a tremendous influe

ction. Yet many great men have been of opinion that it exalts the imagination, fires the genius, accelerates the flow of ideas, an

dibus arguitur vin

s: I find that an occasional glass, taken with judgment and caution, has a very salutary effect in maintaining that equilibrium of the system, which it is always m

hristopher does not seem to have raised our spirits. Chromatic, f

rther preface, immediate

O

t binn Sir

not what it

him mellow,

s cellar sto

ur land we co

re gay, more p

d fill a b

round with TH

knew the f

rth's boat in

had but l

of which sh

uest that gra

the freest

toast when

t round with TH

true good h

l flow of pl

ade a brow

a tear, but

und his tomb

d his gay old

song, and

sound but THRE

kles and glasses a

in any individual, to set himself up against the authority of so many great men, as may be marshalled in metaphysical phalanx under the opposite banners of the controversy; such as Aristotle, Plato, the scholiast on Aristophanes, St Chrysostom, St Jerome, St Athanasius, Orpheus, Pindar, Simonides, Gronovius, Hemsterhusius, Longi

are one of those who value a

of Inscriptions, I have read through from beginning to end, deposes, with irrefragable refutation, against your ratiocinative speculations, wherein you seem desirous, by the futile process of analytical dialectics, to subvert the pyrami

s the bottle. The very best

he slight disadvantage

Dr Johnson observed on a similar occasi

some difficulty in furnishing me wit

, sir, do you questi

a reply; which, from things that have no exis

, and etymologically correct; and, I conceive, I have demonstrated what I shall now

sir, to advance any opinion t

. Death and

e, sir. That apology

ope. Apo

mper, which I consider equivalent to a confes

Lightning and

name of Bacchus!- A glee! a glee! Music has charm

ith all my heart; for, by my

en; you, and I, and Chromat

Patrick O'Prism, each holding a bumpe

L

eeltap! I neve

bumper, a bum

s freely, don't sh

heeltap! I neve

ilight! while Bacc

shrinking! all d

clay, since 'tis

shrinking! all d

D CH

scope, Mr Jenkison, Mr Gall, Mr Treacle, Mr Nightshade, Mr Ma

eeltap! I neve

bumper, a bum

s freely, don't sh

heeltap! I neve

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er they continued drinking the worse they should be. Mr Foster seconded the motion, declaring the transition from the bottle to female society to be an indisputable amelioration of the state of the sensitive man. Mr Jenkis