“ Mr. Spectator, "THERE is hardly any thing gives me a more sensible delight than the enjoyment of a cool still evening after the uneasiness of a hot sultry day. Such a one I passed not long ago, which made me rejoice when the hour was come for the sun to set, that I might enjoy the freshness of the evening in my garden, which then affords me the pleasantest hours 1 pass in the whole four-and-twenty. I immediately rose from my couch, and went down into it. You descend at first by twelve stone steps into a large square divided into four grass-plots, in each of which is a statue of white marble. This is separated from a large parterre by a low wall; and from thence, through a pair of iron gates, you are led into a long broad walk of the finest turf, set on each side with tall yews, and on either hand bordered by a canal, which on the right divides the walk from a wilderness parted into a variety of alleys and arbours, and on the left from a kind of amphitheatre, which is the receptacle of a great number of oranges and myrtles. The moon shone bright, and seemed then most agreeably to supply the place of the sun, obliging me with as much light as was necessary to discover a thousand pleasing objects, and at the same time divested of all power of heat. The reflection of it in the water, the fanning of the wind rustling on the leaves, the singing of the thrush and nightingale, and the coolness of the walks, all conspired to make me lay aside all displeasing thoughts, and brought me into such a tranquillity of mind, as is, I believe, the next happiness to that of hereafter. In this sweet retirement I naturally fell into the repetition of some lines out of a poem of Milton's, which he entitles Il Penseroso, the ideas of which were exquisitely suited to my present wanderings of thought. the enjoyment of such delights as this solitude affords me. In this thought, I sat me down on a bank of flowers, and dropped into a slumber, which, whether it were the effect of fumes and vapours, or my present thoughts, I know not; but methought the genius of the garden stood before me, and introduced into the walk where I lay this drama and different scenes of the revolution of the year, which whilst I then saw, even in my dream, I resolved to write down, and send to the Spectator: "The first person whom I saw advancing towards me was a youth of a most beautiful air and shape, though he seemed not yet arrived at that exact proportion and symmetry of parts which a little more time would have given him; but, however, there was such a bloom in his countenance, such satisfaction and joy, that I thought it the most desirable form that I had ever seen. He was clothed in a flowing mantle of green silk, interwoven with flowers: he had a chaplet of roses on his head, and a narcissus in his hand; primroses and violets sprang up under his feet, and all nature was cheered at his approach. Flora was on one hand, and Vertumnus on the other, in a robe of changeable silk. After this, I was surprised to see the moon-beams reflected with a sudden glare from armour, and to see a man completely armed advancing with his sword drawn. I was soon informed by the genius it was Mars, who had long usurped a place among the attendants of the Spring. He made way for a softer appearance. It was Venus, without any ornament but her own beauties, not so much as her own cestus, with which she had encompassed a globe, which she held in her right hand, and in her left hand she had a sceptre of gold. After her, followed the Graces, with their arms entwined within one another: their girdles were loosed, and they moved to the sound of soft music, striking the ground alternately with their feet. Then came up the three Months which belong to this season. As March advanced towards me, there was, methought, in his look a louring roughness, which ill befitted a month which was ranked in so soft a season; but as he came forwards, his features became insensibly more mild and gentle; he smoothed his brow, and looked with so sweet a countenance, that I could not not but lament his departure, though he made way for April. He appeared in the greatest gaiety imaginable, and had a thousand pleasures to attend him: his look was frequently clouded, but immediately returned to its first composure, and remained fixed in a smile. Then came May, attended by Cupid, with his bow strung, and in a posture to let fly an arrow: as he passed by, methought I heard a confused noise of soft complaints, gentle ecstasies, and tender sighs of lovers; vows of constancy, and as many complainings of perfidiousness: all which the winds wafted away as soon as they had reached my hearing. After these, I saw a man advance in the fall prime and vigour of his age; his complexion was sanguine and ruddy, his hair black, and fell down in beautiful ringlets beneath his shoulders; a mantle of hair-coloured silk hung loosely upon him: he advanced with a hasty "I reflected then upon the sweet vicissitudes of step after the Spring, and sought out the shade and night and day, on the charming disposition of the cool fountains which played in the garden. He was seasons, and their return again in a perpetual circle: particularly well pleased when a troop of Zephyrs and oh! said I, that I could from these my declining fanned him with their wings. He had two compayears return again to my first spring of youth and nions who walked on each side, that made him apvigour; but that, alas! is impossible! all that re-pear the most agreeable: the one was Aurora with mains within my power is to soften the incon- fingers of roses, and her feet dewy, attired in gray: veniences I feel, with an easy contented mind, and the other was Vesper, in a robe of asure beset with: Sweet bird! that shunn'st the noise of folly, Then let some strange mysterious dream Softly on my eyelids laid: And, as I wake, sweet music breatho less displeasing, as they discovered more or less haste towards the grateful return of Spring."-Z. No. 426,] WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1712. What bands of faith can impious lucre hold.-DRYDEN, A VERY agreeable friend of mine, the other day, carrying me in his coach into the country to dinner, fell into discourse concerning the "care of parents due to their children," and the "piety of children towards their parents." He was reflecting upon the succession of particular virtues and qualities there might be preserved from one generation to another, if these regards were reciprocally held in veneration; but as he never fails to mix an air of mirth and good-humour with his good sense and reasoning, he entered into the following relation: drops of gold, whose breath he caught whilst it passed over a bundle of honey-suckles and tuberoses which he held in his hand. Pan and Ceres followed them with four reapers, who danced a morrice to the sound of oaten pipes and cymbals. Then came the attendant Months. June.retained still some small likeness of the Spring; but the other two seemed to step with a less vigorous tread, especially August, who seemed almost to faint, whilst for half the steps he took, the dog-star levelled his rays full at his head. They passed on, and made way for a person that seemed to bend a little under the weight of years; his beard and hair, which were full grown, were composed of an equal number of black and gray; he wore a robe which he had girt round him, of a yellowish cast, not unlike the colour of fallen leaves, which he walked upon. I thought he hardly made amends for expelling the foregoing scene by the large quantity of fruits which he bore in his hands. Plenty walked by his side with a healthy fresh countenance, pouring out from a horn "I will not be confident in what century, or under all the various products of the year. Pomona fol- what reign it happened, that this want of mutual lowed with a glass of cider in her hand, with Bac- confidence and right understanding between father chus in a chariot drawn by tigers, accompanied by and son was fatal to the family of the Valentines in a whole troop of satyrs, fauns, and sylvans. Sep- Germany. Basilius Valentinus was a person who tember, who came next, seemed in his looks to pro- had arrived at the utmost perfection in the hermetic mise a new Spring, and wore the livery of those art, and initiated his son Alexandrinus in the same months. The succeeding month was all soiled with mysteries; but, as you know they are not to be ate the juice of grapes, as if he had just come from the tained but by the painful, the pious, the chaste, and wine-press. November, though he was in this division, yet, by the many stops he made, seemed pure of heart, Basilius did not open to him, be cause of his youth, and the deviations too natural rather inclined to the Winter, which followed close to it, the greatest secrets of which he was master, at his heels. He advanced in the shape of an old as well knowing that the operation would fail in man in the extremity of age; the hair he had was the hands of a man so liable to errors in life as so very white, it seemed a real snow; his eyes were Alexandrinus. But believing, from a certain indisred and piercing, and his beard hung with a great position of mind as well as body, his dissolution was quantity of icicles; he was wrapped up in furs, but drawing nigh, he called Alexandrinus to him, and yet so pinched with excess of cold, that his limbs as he lay on a couch, over-against which his son were all contracted, and his body bent to the ground, was seated, and prepared by sending out servants so that he could not have supported himself had it one after another, and admonition to examine that not been for Comus, the god of revels, and Neces- no one overheard them, he revealed the most impor sity, the mother of Fate, who sustained him on each tant of his secrets with the solemnity and language side. The shape and mantle of Comus was one of of an adept. My son,' said he, many have been the things that most surprised me: as he advanced the watchings, long the lucubrations, constant the towards me, his countenance seemed the most de- labours of thy father, not only to gain a great and sirable I had ever seen. On the fore part of his plentiful estate to his posterity, but also to take care mantle was pictured joy, delight, and satisfaction, that he should have no posterity. Be not amazed, with a thousand emblems of merriment, and jests my child: I do not mean that thou shalt be taken with faces looking two ways at once; but as he from me, but that I will never leave thee, and conpassed from me I was amazed at a shape so little sequently cannot be said to have posterity. Behold, correspondent to his face; his head was bald, and my dearest Alexandrinus, the effect of what was all the rest of his limbs appeared old and deformed. propagated in nine months. We are not to contraOn the hinder part of his mantle was represented diet Nature, but to follow and to help her; just as Murder with dishevelled hair and a dagger all long as an infant is in the womb of its parent, so bloody, Anger in a robe of scarlet, and Suspicion long are these medicines of revivification in presquinting with both eyes; but above all, the most paring. Observe this small phial and this little conspicuous was the battle of the Lapithe and the gallipot-in this an unguent, in the other a liquor. Centaurs. I detested so hideous a shape, and In these, my child, are collected such powers, as turned my eyes upon Saturn, who was stealing shall revive the springs of life when they are yet but away behind him, with a scythe in one hand and an just ceased, and give new strength, new spirits, and, hour-glass in the other, unobserved. Behind Ne-in a word, wholly restore all the organs and senses cessity was Vesta, the goddess of fire, with a lamp of the human body to as great a duration as it had which was perpetually supplied with oil, and whose flame was eternal. She cheered the rugged brow of Necessity, and warmed her so far as almost to make her assume the features and likeness of Choice. December, January, and February, passed on after the rest, all in furs; there was little distinction to be made amongst them; and they were only more or The English are branded, perhaps unjustly, with being addicted to suicide about this tinie of the year before enjoyed from its birth to the day of the ap. plication of these my medicines. But, my beloved son, care must be taken to apply them within ten hours after the breath is out of the body, while yet the clay is warm with its late life, and yet capable of resuscitation. I find my frame grown crazy with perpetual toil and meditation; and I conjure you, as soon as I am dead, to anoint me with this unguent; and when you see me begin to move, pour into my lips this inestimable liquor, else the force tate so much as to make thee the richest man in the German empire. I am going to my long home, but shall not return to common dust.' Then he resumed a countenance of alacrity, and told him, that if within an hour after his death he anointed his whole body, and poured down his throat that liquor which he had from old Basilius, the corpse would be converted into pure gold. I will not pretend to ex of the ointment will be ineffectual. By this means ceiving themselves, that their regularity and strict you will give me life as I have you, and we will ness of manners, for the ends of this world, has from that hour mutually lay aside the authority of some affinity to the innocence of heart which must having bestowed life on each other, live as brethren, recommend them to the next.' Renatus wondered and prepare new medicines against such another to hear his father talk so like an adept, and with period of time as will demand another application of such a mixture of piety; while Alexandrinus, obthe same restoratives.' In a few days after these serving his attention fixed, proceeded. This phial, wonderful ingredients were delivered to Alexandri-child, and this little earthen pot, will add to thy esnus, Basilius departed this life. But such was the pious sorrow of the son at the loss of so excellent a father, and the first transports of grief had so wholly disabled him from all manner of business, that he never thought of the medicines till the time to which his father had limited their efficacy was expired. To tell the truth, Alexandrinus was a man of wit and pleasure, and considered his father had lived out his natural time; his life was long and uniform, suit-press to you the unfeigned tenderness that passed able to the regularity of it; but that he himself, poor sinner, wanted a new life, to repent of a very bad one hitherto, and, in the examination of his heart, resolved to go on as he did with this natural being of his, but to repent very faithfully, and spend very piously the life to which he should be restored by application of these rarities, when time should come, to his own person. "It has been observed, that Providence frequently punishes the self-love of men, who would do immoderately for their own offspring, with children very much below their characters and qualifications; insomuch that they only transmit their names to be borne by those who give daily proofs of the vanity of the labour and ambition of their progenitors. "It happened thus in the family of Basilius; for Alexandrinus began to enjoy his ample fortune in all the extremities of household expense, furniture, and insolent equipage; and this he pursued till the day of his own departure began, as he grew sensible, to approach. As Basilius was punished with a son very unlike him, Alexandrinus was visited with one of his own disposition. It is natural that ill men should be suspicious; and Alexandrinus, besides the jealousy, had proofs of the vicious disposition of his son Reuatus, for that was his name. "Alexandrinus, as I observed, having very good reasons for thinking it unsafe to trust the real secret of his phial and gallipot to any man living, projected to make sure work, and hope for his success depending from the avarice, not the bounty of his benefactor. between these two extraordinary persons; but if the father recommended the care of his remains with vehemence and affection, the son was not behindhand in professing that he would not cut the least bit off him, but upon the utmost extremity, or to provide for his younger brothers and sisters. "Well, Alexandrinus died, and the heir of his body (as our term is) could not forbear, in the wantonness of his heart, to measure the length and breadth of his beloved father, and cast up the ensuing value of him before he proceeded to operation. When he knew the immense reward of his pains, he began the work: but lo! when he had anointed the corpse all over, and began to apply the liquor, the body stirred, and Renatus, in a fright, broke the phial."-T. No. 427.] THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1712. Quantum a rerum turpitudine abes, tantum te a verborum libertate sejungas.-TULL. We should be as careful of our words as our actions; and as far from speaking as from doing ill. Ir is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self, and an impatience of seeing it in another. Else why should virtue provoke? Why should beauty displease in such a degree, that a man given to scandal never lets the mention of either pass by him, without offering something to the diminution "With this thought he called Renatus to his of it? A lady the other day at a visit, being atbed-side, and bespoke him in the most pathetic ges-tacked somewhat rudely by one whose own character ture and accent. As much, my son, as you have has been very roughly treated, answered a great been addicted to vanity and pleasure, as I also have deal of heat and intemperance very calmly, "Good been before you, you nor I could escape the fame madam, spare me, who am none of your match; I or the good effects of the profound knowledge of our speak ill of nobody, and it is a new thing to me to progenitor, the renowned Basilius. His symbol is be ill spoken of." Little minds think fame consists very well known to the philosophic world; and I in the number of votes they have on their side shall never forget the venerable air of his counte-among the multitude, whereas it is really the insenance, when he let me into the profound mysteries parable follower of good and worthy actions. Fame of the smaragdine table of Hermes. "It is true," is as natural a follower of merit, as a shadow is of a said he, "and far removed from all colour of deceit; that which is inferior is like that which is superior, by which are acquired and perfected all the miracles of a certain work. The father is the sun, the mother the moon, the wind is in the womb, the earth is the nurse of it, and mother of all perfection. All this must be received with modesty and wisdom." The chymical people carry, in all their jargon, a whimsical sort of piety which is ordinary with great lovers of money, and is no more but de The word "neither seems omitted here, though it is not in the original publication in folio, or in the edit in 8vo. of 1712. body. It is true, when crowds press upon you, this shadow cannot be seen; but when they separate from around you, it will again appear. The lazy, the idle, and the froward, are the persons who are most pleased with the little tales which pass about the town to the disadvantage of the rest of the world. Were it not for the pleasure of speaking ill, there are numbers of people who are too lazy to go out of their own houses, and too ill-natured to open their lips in conversation. It was not a little diverting the other day to observe a lady reading a post letter, and at these words, "After all her airs, he has heard some story or other, and the match is broke off;" give orders in the midst of her reading," Put to the horses." That a young woman of merit has missed an advantageous settlement was news not to be delayed, lest somebody else should have given her malicious acquaintance that satisfaction before her. The unwillingness to receive good tidings is a quality as inseparable from a scandal-bearer, as the readiness to divulge bad. But, alas! how wretchedly low and contemptible is that state of mind, that cannot be pleased but by what is the subject of lamentation. This temper has ever been, in the highest degree, odious to gallant spirits. The Persian soldier, who was heard reviling Alexander the Great, was well admonished by his officer," Sir, you are paid to fight against Alexander, and not to rail at him." her, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation. To indulge this humour, she is led about the grounds belonging to the same house she is in; and the persons to whom she is to remove, being in the plot, are ready to receive her at ber own chamber again. At stated times the gentlewoman at whose house she supposes she is at the time, is sent for to quarrel with, according to her common custom. When they have a mind to drive the jest, she is immediately urged to that degree, that she will board in a family with which she has never yet been; and away she will go this instant, and tell them all that the rest have been saying of them. By this means, she has been an inhabitant of every house in the place, without stirring from the same habitation: and the many stories which every body furnishes her with, to favour that deceit, make her the general intelligencer of the town of all that can be said by one woman against another. Thus groundless stories die away, and sometimes truths are smothered under the general word, when they have a mind to discountenance a thing, "Oh! this is in my Lady Bluemantle's Memoirs." mation. Add to this, that other scandal-bearers suspend the use of these faculties which she has lost, rather than apply them to do justice to their neigh bours: and I think, for the service of my fair readers, to acquaint them, that there is a voluntary Lady Bluemantle at every visit in town.-T. No. 428.] FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1712. Occupet extremum scabies.-HOR, Ars. Poet. v. 417. The devil take the hindmost-ENGLISH PROVERB Cicero, in one of his pleadings, defending his client from general scandal, says very handsomely, and with much reason, "There are many who have particular engagements to the prosecutor; there are many who are known to have ill-will to him for whom I appear; there are many who are naturally addicted to defamation, and envious of any good to Whoever receives impressions to the disadvantage any man who may have contributed to spread re- of others, without examination, is to be had in to ports of this kind: for nothing is so swift as scandal, other credit for intelligence than this good Lady nothing is more easily sent abroad, nothing received Bluemantle, who is subjected to have her ears imwith more welcome, nothing diffuses itself so uni-posed upon for want of other helps to better inforversally. I shall not desire that if any report to our disadvantage has any ground for it, you would overlook or extenuate it: but if there be any thing advanced, without a person who can say whence he had it, or which is attested by one who forgot who told him of it, or who had it from one of so little consideration that he did not then think it worth his notice, all such testimonies as these, I know, you will think too slight to have any credit against the innocence and honour of your fellow-citizen." When an ill report is traced, it very often vanishes among such as the orator has here recited. And how despicable a creature must that be who is in pain for what passes among so frivolous a people! There is a town in Warwickshire, of good note, and formerly pretty famous for much animosity and dissension, the chief families of which have now turned all their whispers, backbitings, envies, and private malices, into mirth and entertainment, by means of a peevish old gentlewoman, known by the title of the Lady Bluemantle. This heroine had, for many years together, outdone the whole sisterhood of gossips in invention, quick utterance, and unprovoked malice. This good body is of a lasting constitution, though extremely decayed in her eyes, and decrepit in her feet. The two circumstances of being always at home from her lameness, and very attentive from her blindness, make her lodgings the receptacle of ail that passes in town, good or bad; but for the latter she seems to have the better memory. There is another thing to be noted of her, which is, that as it is usual with old people, she has a livelier memory of things which passed when she was very young than of late years. Add to all this, that she does not only not love anybody, but she hates every body. The statue in Rome* does not serve to vent malice half so well as this old lady does to disappoint it. She does not know the author of any thing that is told her, but can readily repeat the matter itself; therefore, though she exposes all the whole town, she offends no one in it. She is so exquisitely restless and peevish, that she quarrels with all about * A statue of Pasquin in that city, on which sarcastic remarks were pasted, an i thence called Pasquinades, It is an impertinent and an unreasonable fault in conversation, for one man to take up all the discourse. It may possibly be objected to me myself, that I am guilty in this kind, in entertaining the town every day, and not giving so many able persons, who have it more in their power, and as much in their inclination, an opportunity to oblige mankind with their thoughts. "Besides," said one whom I overheard the other day, "why must this paper turn altogether upon topics of learning and morality ? Why should it pretend only to wit, humour, or the like things which are useful only to amuse men of literature and superior education? I would have it consist also of all things which may be necessary or useful to any part of society; and the mechanic art should have their place as well as the liberal. The ways of gain, husbandry, and thrift. will serve a greater number of people, than discourses upon what was well said or done by such a philosopher, hero, general, or poet."-I no sooner heard this critic talk of my works, but I minuted what he had · said; and from that instant resolved to enlarge the plan of my speculations, by giving notice to all persons of all orders, and each sex, that if they are pleased to send me discourses, with their names and places of abode to them, so that I can be satisfied the writings are authentic, such their labours shall be faithfully inserted in this paper. It will be of much more consequence to a youth, in his appren ticeship, to know by what rules and arts such a one became sheriff of London, than to see the sign of one of his own quality with a lion's heart in eacla 499 of historians in the methods of drawing up, changing the forms of a battalia, and the enemy retreating from, as well as approaching to, the charge. But in the discourses from the correspondents whom I now invite, the danger will be of another kind;: and it is necessary to caution them only against using terms of art, and describing things that are familiar to them in words that are unknown to their readers. I promise myself a great harvest of new circumstances, persons, and things, from this proposal; and a world which many think they are well acquainted with, discovered as wholly new. sort of intelligence will give a lively image of the This chain and mutual dependance of human society, take off impertinent prejudices, enlarge the minds of those whose views are confined to their own circumstances; and, in short, if the knowing in several arts, professions, and trades, will exert them. selves, it cannot but produce a new field of diversion and instruction, more agreeable than has yet appeared.-T. hand. The world, indeed, is enchanted with romantic and improbable achievements, when the plain path to respective greatness and success, in the way of life a man is in, is wholly overlooked. Is it possible that a young man at present could pass his time better than in reading the history of stocks, and knowing by what secret springs they have such sudden ascents and falls in the same day? Could he be better conducted in his way to wealth, which is the great articie of life, than in a treatise dated from 'Change-alley by an able proficient there? Nothing certainly can be more useful, than to be well instructed in his hopes and fears; to be diffident when others exult; and with a secret joy buy when others think it their interest to sell. I invite all persons, who have any thing to say for the profitable information of the public, to take their turns in my paper; they are welcome, from the late noble inventor of the longitude, to the humble author of strops for razors. If to carry ships in safety, to give help to people tossed in a troubled sea, without knowing to what shore they bear, what rocks to avoid, or what coast to pray for in their extremity, be a worthy labour, and an invention that deserves a statue; at the same time, he who has found means to let the instrument, which is to make your visage less horrid and your person more smug, easy in the operation, is worthy of some kind of good reception. If things of high moment meet with renown, those of little consideration, since of any consideration, are not to be despised. In order that no merit may company which were gone down into the country, "Since I gave an account of an agreeable set of lie hid, and no art unimproved, I repeat it, that I have received advices from thence, that the insticall artificers, as well as philosophers, to my assist-tution of an infirmary for those who should be out of ance in the public service. It would be of great humour has had very good effects. My letters menuse if we had an exact history of the successes of tion particular circumstances of two or three per every great shop within the city-walls, what tracts sons, who had the good sense to retire of their own of land have been purchased by a constant attend- accord, and notified that they were withdrawn, with ance within a walk of thirty foot. If it could also the reasons of it to the company, in their respective be noted in the equipage of those who are ascended memorials. from the successful trade of their ancestors into figure and equipage, such accounts would quicken industry in the pursuit of such acquisitions, and discountenance luxury in the enjoyment of them. No. 429.] SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1712. "MR. SPECTATOR, • The Memorial of Mrs. Mary Dainty, Spinster, 'Humbly Sheweth, gone into exile of her own accord. insufferable creature living in a well-bred assembly. 'She is sensible, that a vain person is the most again, she might have assurances, that though she 'That she desired, before she appeared in public might be thought handsome, there might not more address or compliment be paid to her than to the rest of the company. one person should take upon him to commend anThat she conceived it a kind of superiority, that other. To diversify these kinds of informations, the in-companied with a vanity of being admired, she had "That, conscious of her own want of merit, acdustry of the female world is not to be unobserved. She to whose household virtues it is owing, that men do honour to her husband, should be recorded with veneration; she who has wasted his labours, with infamy. When we are come into domestic life in this manner, to awaken caution and attendance to the main point, it would not be amiss to give now and then a touch of tragedy, and describe that most dreadful of all human conditions, the case of bankruptcy: how plenty. credit, cheerfulness, fall hopes, and easy possessions, are in an instant turned into penury, faint aspects, diffidence, sorrow, and misery; how the man, who with an open hand the day before could minister to the extremities of others, is shunned to-day by the friend of his bosom. It would be useful to show how just this is on the place might be declared an offence, and punished in 'She therefore prayed, that to applaud out of due negligent, how lamentable on the industrious. A the same manner with detraction, in that the latter paper written by a merchant might give this island did but report persons defective, and the former a true sense of the worth and importance of his cha-made them so. racter: it might be visible, from what he could say, that no soldier entering a breach adventures more for honour, than the trader does for wealth to his country. In both eases, the adventurers have their own advantage; but I know no cases wherein every Body else is a sharer in the success. It is objected by readers of history, that the battles in those narrations are scarce ever to be understood. This misfortune is to be ascribed to the ignorance a particular person, who took upon him to profess 'Lastly, that she went into the infirmary, to avoid an admiration of her. ་ All which is submitted,' &c memorial very uncommon; but my friend informs |