The posthumous works of a late celebrated genius, deceased. In two volumes
Sterne, Laurence (pseud.) [Griffith, Richard, the elder] (attr.) [Griffith, Richard, the younger] (attr.)
genious in L whi o ew VY 3 lage 15 Ss Ne) 1 ODC V K r = WIPRETYr € kek WS 5) «< t a hs ne li r YU yO a : b ry wi ae AL ur la % the c nd upon theliftening: ear, andrun off with the ftor ry to the C P MeCrinn. - INNO nTe a rere; PMeAAU LA B&W ViLILOU Ut LCCCIV it. 3 But 1f, by accident, he happened to fall, or was any etherwife obliged bn 4. ‘Es. ic he 417 oh 0 take OM e1tner OF his hands from tely loft all re- membrance f the meffage, and would. , crying, for ht efh inftruc- ‘ ° © r a] PQATe iaWe) t YQ bi is? VAL Lic timmedia 138. The beft account for the be- heft of miracles has been given by “~4ag AYLASs +. on et 2 9 banaed “ 3 smal b= ca) o : A q w ys, that the = Tee ftrikes the imagine ation: and when once 3 7 7 } that has been gal ned over, ibe gudgment has no Lo WT CF fair play. 9. A curious fentence I once me [ oe gellis alteratur ; fed, ut puer, vult rofis et floribus coronart« 140. Vitam regit fortuna, non api- entia.—This is a very bad moral, and { wonder how the author of Tully’s Offices could fuffer it to efcape him. 141. Lycurgus, in order to con~ frm his eftablifhment for ever, took a journey to Delphos, on pretence of confulting the oracle; firft obliging the king, fenaté, and people, in an oath, not to alter the fiate till his return. He then retired into voluntary exile for life—What a deal of virtue and simplicity must they have had in those days! Ex fensibus antem cetera homini tatus, deinde gustatus—reliquis superatur multis—Aquux clavus. As Ae of as pan i ee aN Ba SES oe he ee In Us cs I ire, 'Cs here. a otfian some no but loo iftancy.— bd 1 44 ALA pa A kT Vv | + VEC ok, a re het ence between eq a i Oars. ay = 5 ePYr ee oy Assanlud co y co a] O Mant U7 “Lh § WwW OL in Qi 95 ily f aw NPN extras Aa a “rT v | | a Se en ~~ Maze - ~ a = — a Se re tC 3 = 2 SS ee Fae aL I Tos | and the Sybils, were all boriy under the Affyrian, called the first monarchy. Had all possible music been exhausted by nature, that The emperor, Adrian, who wrote the familiar verficles to his soul, and was a person of surprising knowledge and literature, saw a king, preferred Cato to Cicero, and Ennius to Virgil. Septimius Severus, the ninth Roman emperor, died at York, in Great Britain. 5 ih Bes Bh x ) epee PES r paoh There was: sometimes no more remark- a oh 1 r BYALA isha qn £iasa ner{in Tixs {x LD! ya @etsinwWia, £52 Vid Ye 30D). AAD 1Oah Se Sn in Sa Sek Sa a a Se ts [ 386 7 Caracalla item pte to flay him, just after he had declared him his success but was prevented by his guards. The good old man refented only, but revenged not, the intended parricide; and retiring into his palace, fell ill immediately, and died of grief. I admire the philosophy in him that forgave, but more love the nature in him that felt. 149. Contitantius, the last of the pagan Roman emperors, and father of Constantine the Great, died also at York. 150. Helogabalus, though a sad dog, sudicated one very humble, and therefore just, law—which was, the establishing a female jurisdiction, to Sih dit in judgment upon all trials relative to the sex. I think that such a supplement is: much wanted in our own constitution. How can a female culprit be said to be tried by her peers, without a female jury? But upon all indictments for ravishment, particularly, I would have women only impaneled. For the business, upon such occasions, ought undoubtedly to be, rather to examine the accuser, than to try the accused. Now girls often give themselves great airs about being raised, though nothing might have been farther from their thoughts at the time. They might perhaps have been so, in natural sense, though not in a legal sense—which is all I pretend to contend for. And how is it possible for a man, or even twelve  as near the beginning of the sixteenth century, certain priests, having met with this passage, in some recent author, or as a witness, in his Lexicon, that evace signified a statute or pipe, brought no less than fifteen arguments, in an academic exercise, to prove the human soul to be a whole. Henry the Fourth, emperor of Germany, received the imperial crown from the hands of Pope Clement. He was also the true Messiah. The Jews sent legates to Oliver Cromwell, to know whether he was not the true Messiah. Pope Julius the Second was reading the Bible, when an account was brought to him of his troops being beaten by the French. Upon which, he threw down the book on the floor, out of resentment to the partiality of liberty for which they had been distinguished. But after they had so poorly succumbed to arbitrary sway, the ancient name of Gaul would better have become them—and the dunghill, not the game-cock, should be their mission. Stephen Barthorius, a king of Poland, said, that God had referred three things to himself—the power of creation, the knowledge of future events, and the dominion over our confections. The Romans were a wicked people in their public policy, though virtuous. In their private morals. They made use of the safest, most oppressive, and most cruel methods of sacrificing their empire—by substituting all their neighbours to  and ction 1 bs £ rrty WA ‘ ties mM co im | ALs yYtsak Q radi f 2 q d ° Wirt ° or P =< RS OY Awad P uu -Cemifiions, wa u virt [ 194 ] mixed, or enriched, and fo have be- come obfolete, as they muft have done, long before the era when they Xu g - ftablifhed as a ftudy in the fe 14 were hirit e uropean colleges. bh Boyle, in his Seraphic Love, fays, ** Our Saviour is fo near unto be that he might well have faid, “<I and the Fiubhep are one.’—By which he feems to have thought, that Chrift fpoke only figuratively in fuch eva gut Boyle had ftudied the Scriptures, Nia enhe £ Ax 3 Nay, 1n hed beginning of the twen- 4 | Ere 5 RS c thic rer woric h e LIELD JECTION AO ChAIS very WOTk, ICE eres ed Pe hat = (Set Bc exprefly fays, “ that he had had 1% é Sy he ihe As ee yt c ss taken fome paims-m the ituay ot a” @ 5 ey See aan Poe BT Sie 4b ¥ ves ane jis abilities were-oreat; and his .< Sha cana yt 2 Ree ¢ i & 3 ligion warm—to that, both Ar as ene eee Ret <9 es me [Foe 4 as.an enthufiaft:and a theologift, he would probably. have delivered him- felf more Athanajianly, if he had not been reftrained, both as a metaphy- fician and an expolitor. 162. Lewis the Thireeenth took particular notice of De Retz, atter- wards cardinal, for his generofity and virtue in placing a girl in a convent, who had been fold to him by her mo- ther; as alfo for his bravery in de- firing his antagonift to take up his sword again, which he had dropt, on his foot flipping, in a duel with him. The attending to fuch inftances of jagnanimity and. virtue, in private life, is the being a king. ‘This is the only way that a monarchy can be faid to be preferable to a commion- wealth. N 2 As De asi ets els em, SIE Re me ee a es See | J Fi A Jd wid the w« ( S OT i ail WAL y 4 ] Urpi nut 3. iLupDpeLie PE Sp Live sha ITY {- ShA 7 ever aOone- a 7 15 oaq “4 <P) 4 “4 +1. i? L Orv AV ab «4 il % ¥* ¥ ee V1IUL ies. LicCA 4a V a Re ‘ = Sa eee E eter 3] 164. What has furprized me mott in hiftory, is to read of fo few kings who have’ ‘abdicated their shvtatia: Not above a dozen or two at the mot! 164. I fhirted myfelf this morning the moment I got out of bed.— There happened to be a large pier glafs yall before me, which enpyfed me to my- fel f. ftar! iS we 22 Ss) er] X OD On e el = iS) = iy = at ; bot a w food & for near a minute, snaeshrniiaed on my figure, with m arms a kembo, refe nbl ine, both in fhape and com- slexion, one of your ne v-fafhioned Dp Ai 3 a aay, eee | “ brown Dutch tea kitchens—but alas! 33-3. 1, {. = rLowr without @ /alamander. TT Sati Cee 1 Upon a clote icrutiny Kas ali my ; ES ce see * viewers’ parts, I could fairly account ! for every 1 ° le , } at . AT oiteiat L 4 «xt inch, Mme bis DCT, Oi CIUrCiing Lech C S reat DC A INHe ae 9 SENN Sra re eee SS CSS TES Sane eS [ 198 ] me, except my wxpples.—The Horfe, the bull, the ram —nor even the baboon, which comes neareft to man—— have them not.—No other male ani- the creation is incumbered 1 parts, as actually appear to be of no more ufe to me than they are to the /ady mothers, mentioned in ter XX X11. mal of with fuc 166. A folution of thethree riddles mentioned in number 135: O ciel! donne a mon cceur des forces fuffifantes, Pour pouvoir fupporter des douleurs fi cuifantes. O mihi tam longz maneat pars ultima vite, piritus, et quantum fat erit tua dicere facta! Fear fir made gods, the impious atheist cries— And fear ponade them, the divine replies, You can easily see the contrivance of it. The initials only of each word are set down, and a dot made for every letter in it, Here Lobahgg tu There make a present of this mystery to the public, for the benefit of the press. Yet will be a much better method of defining names that one dares not print out, than the common way of A—,B ates As for example:—Suppose you had been abusing a corrupt minister, till you were tired—but indeed, right or wrong, they are all abused—and then were to conclude your spite, with saying, the man | mean is A how readily might one mistake this for Sandwich? But were it written thus, S------, the obloquy would be obviated—nor would the candid public fear malignity to avail itself of the old quibble, 4 non est htera— while the decypherer would soon end the dispute, by constructing it into Sepanus ° Sette ER yTrcy At Awe | 5 id tid io r m4 it J¢ 7 e* 2 Cs ur Here, here, there, at the end of the year, the following corrections have been made: a 7 here 2 o4 v at ati vu on of t e um r 1 i me o +-. i nN. Chala -t a i. t m=) WNne once ¥ AWN asa 4. begaty > Rerws Parties) +r see conceived a particular aversion to personal fons who had been born with red hair. He carried this fira ange prejudice to an extravagant leneth.—He ufed to fay, t that he could never confide in a plexion—for at hve men were falfe, and women frifky. ee aa pS f ets seeks An inftance or two .of this kind } ° ° 5 lon Fe Sea Oe | pe eee = } ee ey ee ep yy nad determined bis philofophy, with = ae t ae ‘ h Ppt Reps) ase tae as much reaion as the jockey, in ‘an a q Se eA ek Spee ee pn ae * - old ftory, had for the reverfe—wh 1 4 a ne met xe mad bags having once met with a. good horfe, x dew Ex chic ae rp) YC who happened to be cropt-eared, pro- b hamee i | fe f. me eae | nounced that cropt-eared horfes were cea Mr | cy od A ha phar 4 7 PeLraAmyM natural iy & oo0d.— A Darper too recom-: ¥ an J a q ro] ie op L, Hg aie tard £. AM the f=.) Mendadea WPT (AWG aj LEG a aZoO Vs, il Will LL fame exper! ence. Red hair is only a fign— fign at-all—of warm or fc [ eee tions ; and operates according: to the ruling paflion, of love, religion, am- bition, play, revenge, &c.—which differs equally both in men and. wo- men of all complexions.—And I have always found more virtue in warm affections, than in /ukewarm ones.— Warm paffions may be tempered, but cold ones can never. be brought.to | ta 7 feeth. 170. In the Paffion, painted by Mi- chael Angelo, the Virgin is finely de- {cribed, according to her peculiar circumftances—though certainly moit abfurdly, under the general idea of fuch a fituation. She stands unmoved, and looks on the sufferings of her Son, who, without regret, without tears—because she is supposed to have known that the event was to be finally happy. What different opinions must a Christian and a Muslim form of this piece! Christian and a Muslim form of this piece! Nunc itaque et verus, et externa pone; Quod verum atque decens, cur, et rogo, et omnis in hoc fum. Hor. Eprist. I met lately with the following lines, which are, in sense, and almost in words, the very same with the former? Hic igitur verus, et externa ludicra pone: Quod verum, atque bonum: est, inquiro, et totus in hoc fum. The author of the latter lines was not quoted, in the passage from whence I have taken them—which was the  Vis ° hi Lad et 7 27 YOY Ea f hi etatlJla tha f t 1 cl “4 u 1e€ WoO vol 115 4 ii a OUT | 792 {~. Y¥GLIGC ¥ n qa) O cS S pot lan) el 4 | po Ce d Now the fora vel > y y y y t (Mn 1 to have b { T1OK7 UCT Ee 1 ST is me aiLiw tween 73 VI b 1 B28 OiOpii a aa JL O 3+ LU 25:0 Are pad O or T> 1419 F Cee Oe wrmor a AT. j= ie Lt Ye aAwaw « th: C4 ©} 77 LL 4 ot: ated bo {} Aik tra 1 Cil ° 7 ary y A = > 5 RE li (ie peal i DCR LLICCECL Pp VY roan eo a SSS Se SS eee STS SS ir ee CN ne [° 266% 5] fimile for Homer to have applied to Ajax or Diomede—Which is it? for [ will not take the trouble to look, though the Iliad les now -on my table. Madame Dacier defends the allu- fion to the a/s, in fuch a way as de- ferves not a ferious anfwer.—She had much better have agreed with Ho- race, and have ranked that fimile under the head of Aligquando bonus dormitat Homerus. . Ariftotle’s Art of Poetry is the beft efteemed picce of Bethel tig the antients. How came he to excel both ‘Horace and Vida, though better poets, and who had alfo the advantage of ftudying him before they wi ve ‘Becaufe they only copied himn— Dut he had copied nature—<AI his B rulcs, 207 | rules, as’ Pere. Rapin fays, are but nature methodized, OY reason reduced to art. 174. Some of the altitudes or depths of gram i are, to doubt our fenfes, to difcredit our own ex iftence, and to require impoffible demonftrations for felf-evident propofitions. +c, The philofopher, I think it was Des Cartes, who, after a world ef deep reflexion, faid, Cogito, ergo fum, maight as well have faid dubito, at firft, and have deduced his ergo from thence at once.—For, in this cafe, fo ~ doubt, ts to be certain. 176. See the account of the plays, filed the My/feries, defcribed in the preface to Don Quixote.  Vy = Dap Ty 180. Sir Francis Bacon—All is ras: nnaeat 3474+ ¢ an | 37 is 7? ue TNVrAaTrm oo ™~ ¥ } a CNOULN FULL to mention his name ony, he wifeft, brightest, meanek of mankind.” 181. The ancient philosophy makes LeviGsizec a order to be even with it, has spiritualized matter.—What extremes are men yy a le to run into, who depart one line from common sense! terialized spirit, and the modern, in We ridicule the Irish, for saying hilt, for killed.— But their authority bears no less a name than Spencer. 183. Lam deeit avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet. 184. Quan- es 6 ee 184.. Quanta laboras in Charybd: ! Digne puer-meliore amma. Hor, .uibets Od. How was it pofitble for Horace, or 20 Horace, to be guilty of fuch a-con-- fufion of figure, as today that a per- On was Beibigehy oath in one line, and worthy of a better ‘biole , in another ? This was going through fire and water for a metaphor, with /wo wit- neffes. 185.. Among the tmaccountane deliriums aan nature, there was aman, mentionéd in antient hiftor ‘e who fancied that he Je got fome of Asilt pha frogs in his “belly Ys Cry- ing Brecé ekex, coax, coax, et. 00p. 36. ——— oe HENS O dire Omen * I ‘© J found my weapon had the arras pierc’d, (2 ‘e-Junk .. my { ak re pe 7 WI1CROU O rwoven, [INE a C Ys JULIVES AY Wal ~ 4 10 ea, or reflex d { action, 1 -* ~ 8 fave! efembl] wi LERMVICS c ePl¢é nts of the ° * Be rOl —-ar me pJLE Leb a ie) =4 = as) an hA gat } e) lena “2 iss) np TY ii your, in co few Ce) 79) ra ¢ Re’ aie mal Sid ~ ery WiItnd Rk et can ft Mi AO + acu ie Inul 7 ¢ AETOAT IZ RRR Nea Seige ees EARS Sn [) 214° J that ‘a greater variety, under the ge» neral ee of Memorabilia, might have been more amufing to my readers. However, I think that I have fur- nifhed the {ecusilea of the curious with inftances fufficient, in this latter clafs, to hint to infidels, that the.com- mon and. obvious courfe of nature comprehends not all: the. powers of h *rovidence. Qi Dini ftudet, orat: This I have said, somewhere, before— but it can never be too often repeated. Your affectionate humble servant, RIA JUNCTA-IN UNO. FINIS MEM | FULIUM. JUST PUBLISHED, Neatly printed in One Volume (small octavo, TRAVELS of a PHILO SOPHER: Observations on the Manners and Arts of various Nations in Africa and Asia. Translated from the French of M. Le Porves, late Envoy to the King of Cochin-China, and now Intendant of the Isles of Bourbons and Mauritius. NA Sn ee oe ae a li LN ee ee ee a at Pn Beane Sk te eee ee SE RR aS i BO a, oe he, Se SS Sass ~— ~ arene at fare os # a sa Se a — = an a — 7 - aS nS SS ees Sa ee ee Oe one, aie =. 