ÆäÀÌÁö À̹ÌÁö
PDF
ePub

cattle.

The Duke of Newcastle made use of this expression [obliterated] to the soldiers. Upon which some wag (for the house was vastly crowded) dropped the following epigram :—

Since beef adds more courage to soldiers in battle,
I consent to the bringing in Irish cattle:

But add then a clause to the bill, which annuls
All free importation of Irish bulls.

I hope the two horses, as well as the master and the man, hold out well, and will all return to town again in good health and flesh; if you brink back with you all the money you pick up on the road, no matter what way, your horse will find you more weighty on your return than in your setting out. Adieu, dear Colman, don't fail to write to me as often as you can, for I wish you very well, and am sincerely yours,

BATH.

GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS TO DR. MILLER.

SIR,

Nottingham Gaol, March 27, 1761. WHEN I parted from you at Doncaster, I imagined, long before this, to have met with some oddities worth acquainting you with. It is grown a fashion of late to write lives :-I have now, and for a long time have had, leisure enough to undertake mine, but want materials for the latter part of it; for my existence now cannot properly be called living, but what the painters term still life; having, ever since March 13, been confined in this town gaol for a London debt.

[graphic]
[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed]
[graphic]

ments) is due in discretion and common policy to the world. For indeed the foibles and vices of great men, celebrated for their parts and actions, too much exposed to view, only confirm and comfort the vulgar in the like conduct, without teaching to that vulgar the imitation of their virtues. Give me leave to add, that this reasoning is irresistible, where the person in question has himself checked the feelings, and cancelled the first expressions of his own intemperate passion.

Let me beg of you to reprint the leaf which contains the passage objected to, and supply the gap either by asterisks, or by a note, which the latter well deserves, as to the state of the king's revenue, then depending in parliament (or near that time) for deliberation; and which will probably give you an opportunity of vindicating Lord Salisbury, whom Sir Francis Bacon, with so much dignity, gravity, and decorum, calls a great subject and a great servant, in another letter written to the king immediately after the treasurer's death.

Forgive me, dear sir, and believe me with true affection always yours,

C. YORKE.

MRS. MONTAGU TO DR. MONSEY.

DEAR DOCTOR, Saturday night, [1762]. I мUCH approve of the style and temper of your last letter, as far as it inclines to that decent share of retirement and meditation which becomes the age of sixty-five; but as in a gay and

« ÀÌÀü°è¼Ó »