long enough to read to the end, this master-piece of learning. The sage Pilpai, his vizier, therefore thus addressed him : : "Though I have had an imperfect knowledge of the library of your sublime Majesty; yet I can make a kind of analysis, of what it contains-very short, but extremely careful; you may read it in a minute; yet, it will afford you suffieient matter for meditation during your whole life." At the same time, the vizier took the leaf of a palm-tree, and wrote on it, with a pencil of gold, the four following maxims 1st. In the greater part of science, there is only this single word, perhaps, in all history, but these phrases : They were born; they were wretched ; and they died. 2nd. Take pleasure in nothing, which is not commendable; and do every thing, which you take a pleasure in. Think nothing, but what is true; and do not utter all you think. 3d. Oh! ye Kings; subdue your pas! sions; reign over yourselves; and you will consider the government of the world, only as recreation. 4th. Oh, ye Kings! Oh, ye Nations! listen to a truth, ye can never hear too often, and which sophists pretend to doubt.. There is no happiness, without virtue ; and no virtue, without the fear of the Gods. Anecdote of Frederick, King of Notwithstanding this Prince's philosophy, he had moments of turbulent passion-An instance of this came to the writer's knowledge, from his own lips.. He was very fond of music, and a good performer on the German flute; neverthe less, meeting with a very difficult cencerto, which he could not go through to his satisfaction, he was so enraged, that he broke his flute to pieces; however, recollecting himself, in a few minutes, he gathered up the fragments, and committed' them to the flames; that even his attendants, might not discover his weakness, saying, at the same time, "How my enemies would triumph, if they knew this!" Anecdote of Doctor Johnson. By the end of the year 1754, Johnson had completed his copy of the Dictionary, not more to his own ease and satisfaction, than to the joy of Millar, the bookseller,. the principal proprietor of the work, and the guardian, or treasurer of the fund, out of which the payments were from time to time issued. To say the truth, his joy, on. this occasion, was so great, that he could. not refrain from expressing it, somewhat intemperately, as appears by the following. acknowledgment, of the receipt of the last sheet of the manuscript. Andrew Millar, sends his compliments to Mr. Samuel Johnson, with the money for the last sheet of the copy of the Dictionary, and thanks God he has done with him." To which, Johnson, returned this good-humoured, and brief answer. "Samuel Johnson, returns his compliments to Mr. Andrew Millar, and is very glad to find, (as he does by his note,) that Andrew Millar, has the grace, to thank God for any thing." Account of Longevity-with some remarkable Circumstances attending it. In St. Martin's church, in Leicester, there is an epitaph on Mr. John Heyrick, who died the 2nd of April, 1589, aged 76, expressing, "That he lived in one house. with Mary, his wife, 52 years; and in all that time, never buried either man, woman, or child, though he had sometimes 20 in family; that his wife lived to be 97 years old, and saw of children, grand-children, and great grand-children, to the number of 147. ANOTHER REMARKABLE INSTANCE. Michael Honeywood, a dean of Lincoln, was grand-child, and one of the three hundred and sixty-seven persons, that Mary, the wife of Robert Honywood, did see, before she died, lawfully descended from her, that is-sixteen of her own; one hundred and fourteen grand-children; two hundred and twenty-eight of the third generation, and nine of the fourth: He was buried in Lincoln-Minster; and this account, is taken from an historical dedescription of that cathedral. Anecdote of the Duke of Sully. The conduct of Sully, to Henry the Fourth of France, was one continued ex |