year-than some for eight.-Thank thee, Jonahan! for thy twenty shillings,-as much, Jonahan, said the Corporal, shaking him by the hand, s if thou hadst put the money into my own ocket.-I would serve him to the day of my leath out of love. He is a friend and a brother o me, and could I be sure my poor brother Tom vas dead, continued the Corporal, taking out is handerchief,-were I worth ten thousand pounds, I would leave every shilling of it to the Captain.-Trim could not refrain from tears at this estamentary proof he gave of his affection to his naster. The whole kitchen was affected.

SHANDY.

MR. SHANDY'S RESIGNATION FOR THE LOSS OF HIS SON.

PHILOSOPHY has a fine saying for every thingFor Death it has an entire set.

"Tis an inevitable chance-the first statute of Magna Charta- -it is an everlasting act of par

iament-All must die.

'Monarchs and princes dance in the same ring with us.

'To die, is the great debt and tribute due unto nature: tombs and monuments, which should perpetuate our memories, pay it themselves; and the proudest pyramid of them all, which wealth and science have erected, has lost its apex, and stands obtruncated in the traveller's horizon.-Kingdoms and provinces, and towns and cities, have they not their periods? and when those principles and

powers, which at first cemented and put them together, have performed their several revolutions, they fall back.

Where is Troy, and Mycena, and Thebes, and Delos, and Persepolis, and Agrigentum?-What is become of Nineveh and Babylon, of Cyzicum, and Mitylene? The fairest towns that ever the sun rose upon are now no more: the names only are left, and those [for many of them are wrong spelt] are falling themselves by piece-meal to decay, and in length of time will be forgotten, and involved with every thing in a perpetual night: the world itself must-must come to an end.

'Returning out of Asia, when I sailed from Ægina towards Megara, I began to view the country round about. Egina was behind me, Megara was before, Pyraus on the right hand, Corinth on the left. What flourishing towns now prostrate upon the earth! Alas! alas! said I to myself, that man should disturb his soul for the loss of a child, when so much as this lies awfully buried in his presence.-Remember, said I to myself again-remember thou art a man.

'My son is dead!—so much the better;-'tis a shame in such a tempest to have but one anchor.

'But he is gone for ever from us!—be it so. He is got from under the hands of his barber before he was bald-he is but risen from a feast before he was surfeited-from a banquet before he had got drunken.

6 The Thracians wept when a child was bornand feasted and made merry when a man went out of the world; and with reason. Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it-

it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hands.

'Show me the man who knows what life is, who dreads it, and I'll shew thee a prisoner who dreads his liberty.'

THE PRECEPTOR.

You see 'tis high time, said my father, addressing himself equally to my uncle Toby and Yorick, to take this young creature out of these women's hands, and put him into those of a private go

vernor.

Now as I consider the person who is to be about my son, as the mirror in which he is to view himself from morning to night, and by which he is to adjust his looks, his carriage, and perhaps the inmost sentiments of his heart;-I would have one, Yorick, if possible, polished at all points, fit my child to look into.

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There is, continued my father, a certain mien and motion of the body and all its parts, both in acting and speaking, which argues a man well within. There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let a penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room,—or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.

I will have him, continued my father, cheerful, faceté, jovial; at the same time, prudent, attentive to business, vigilant, acute, argute, inventive, quick in resolving doubts and speculative questions :—

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he shall be wise, and judicious, and learned :And why not humble, and moderate, and gentle tempered, and good? said Yorick :-And why not, cried my uncle Toby, free and generous, and bountiful and brave?-He shall, my dear Toby, cried my father, getting up and shaking him by his hand. Then, brother Shandy, answered my uncle Toby, raising himself off the chair, and laying down his pipe to take hold of my father's other hand-I humbly beg I may recommend poor Le Fevre's son to you;-a tear of joy of the first water sparkled in my uncle Toby's eye, and another, the fellow to it, in the Corporal's, as the proposition was made;--you will see why, when you read Le Fevre's story.

THE STORY OF LE FEVRE.

It was some time in the summer of that year in which Dendermond was taken by the Allies; when my uncle Toby was one evening getting his supper, with Trim, sitting behind him at a small sideboard, I say sitting-for in consideration of the Corporal's lame knee (which sometimes gave him exquisite pain) when my uncle Toby dined or supped alone he would never suffer the Corporal to stand; and the poor fellow's veneration was such, that with a proper artillery, my uncle Toby could have taken Dendermond itself, with less trouble than he was able to gain this point over him; for many a time, when my uncle Toby supposed the Corporal's leg was at rest, he would look

back, and detect him standing behind him with the most dutiful respect: this bred more little squabbles betwixt them, than all other causes for five-and-twenty years together-But this is neithere here nor there- -why do I mention it!Ask my pen,-it governs me, I govern not it.

He was one evening sitting thus at supper, when the landlord of a little inn in the village came into the parlour with an empty phial in his hand, to beg a glass or two of sack. "Tis for a poor gentleman,-I think of the army, said the landlord, who has been taken ill at my house, four days ago, and · has never held up his head since, or had a desire to taste any thing, till just now, that he has a fancy for a glass of sack and a thin toast:-'I think,' says he, taking his hand from his forehead, 'it would comfort me.'

-If I could neither beg, borrow, or buy, such a thing,-added the landlord,-I would almost steal it for the poor gentleman, he is so ill-I hope in God he will still mend, continued hewe are all of us concerned for him.

Thou art a good-natured soul, I will answer for thee, cried my uncle Toby; and thou shalt drink the poor gentleman's health in a glass of sack thyself, and take a couple of bottles with my service, and tell him he is heartily welcome to them, and to a dozen more if they will do him good.

Though I am persuaded, said my uncle Toby, as the landlord shut the door, he is a very compassionate fellow,-Trim,-yet I cannot help entertaining a high opinion of his guest too; there must be something more than common in him, that in so short a time should win so much upon