1sli-] \ Extracts fram the Portfolio of a Man of Letters. 
presented to him every thing which he 
admired, and one day let fall at his feet 
a medal with bis own portrait engraved 
On it, with this inscription, ‘* Vires acqui- 
rit eundo”’ When he was shewn the 
tomb of Cardinal Richelieu; as soon.as 
he saw the statue of that great minister, 
he displayed one of those violent trans- 
ports which none but great souls are ca- 
pable of feeling. He mounted the tomb, 
and embracing the statue exclaimed, 
«< Great statesman! why were not you 
born in my time, I would have given.you 
one half of my empire, that you might 
have taught me how to govern the other!” 
A nobleman that was present, observed 
to the gentleman who stood next to him, 
that, ‘if the emperor had given the car- 
dinal one half of his kingdom, it would 
not have been long before this enter- 
“prizing churchman would have been the 
sovereign of the whole,” 
SINGULAR SOLUTIONS, FROM THE SPANISH 
OF QUEVEDO. 
A Treatise of all Things whatsoever, and 
many more, by the most learned and 
most expert Dr, W. Dedicated to the 
Company of Busy, Bodies, the Society 
of Babblers, and the Tribe of Old In- 
pertinents, containing many wonderful, 
unaccountable, and prodigious, Secrets, 
which can never fail. 
Propositions und Solutions, 
1, To oblige all handsome women to 
_ follow. you, if youarea man; andthe rich 
gallants, o the same, if-you are a 
woman,—Be sure always to keep before 
them. 
2. To be sure of a good receptio 
wherever you go, and it is infallible. — 
Giye something in every place, and you 
will find so good a reception that you 
will have cause to repent. 
3. To make, the, woman you love ran 
after you wherever. you go, though she 
has never,seen you. before, —Steal what 
she has,, and she will pursue you to the. 
end of the world. ; ~ 
4. That men and women may grant 
all you ask of them,—Desire the women 
to take all you, have, and the men to give 
you nothing, and they will all-grant it. 
5. To be rich.—If you have money, 
kecp it; and if you -have not, do not’ 
covet it; and you will be rich enough: 
6. To come at any woman. without 
ever failing. —If she walks, put on; if she 
puts on, run; if she runs, fly; and you 
will soon come.at her. 
7. That no clothes you have may ever 
wear out.—TJear them to rags yourself, 
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8. That you may never grow grey or 
old.—Die when you are young, ’ 
9. To prevent a tailor from stealing 
your cloth.—Let them make no cloaths 
for you; this is the enly remedy, 
10. To be in great esteem. —Get much 
money, live well, and treat all that come 
near you. f 
11. To prevent growing old.—Keep 
always in the sun in summer, and inthe - 
cold in winter; never allow yourself rest; 
fret at every thing that happens; eat 
your meat cold, and drink water. 
12, That you may be successful in alt 
law-suits.—-Never pay either counsellor 
or solicitor, nor fees of court, for all 
that’ money is certainly lost, and it is a 
daily charge upon you; and if you: pay? 
them and gain. your cause, stil your 
rauney 1s gone ;'and if you are cast, still 
worse, And take notice, that, before 
you go to law, the controversy is, whe- 
ther the money 1s your’s or another's? 
Bat when once the suit is begun, the cons 
trivance is, that it be neither you:’s nor 
the other’s, but their’s who pretend to 
defend both, 
13. That you may never be long sick. 
—Send for your physician when you are 
well, and give him money because you 
are not sick; for if you give it him when 
you are ill, how can you expect heshould 
restore you to health which he gets no- 
thing by, and cure diseases by which he 
lives. t 
LAW AND LAWYERS, 
Sir, Edward Coke in his Institutes, 
frequently takes occasion to blazon the 
learning and importance of the lawyers, 
He calls them the sages of Parhamentr, 
the very life and soul of the king's 
council! In a speech made upon a call 
of serjeants, he compares the coif to the 
helmet of Minerva, (who was the goddess 
of cuunsel), and likewise adds, that the 
four corners of their cap import, science, 
experience, observation, and recordation. 
Sir John Fortescue expresses himself 
in most magnificent terms, and displays, 
with much ostentation, the great advan- 
tages of studying the law, as well as the 
awful dignity and pomp of its professors ; 
and he thinks it a’great and peculiar 
token of divine goodness, mugna et quasi 
approbuta, «benedictio * Dei; ‘that’ trom 
amongst the judges and their offspring 
have sprung up more peers of the realy 
than from any other order of men what. 
ever; which, saith he, can never be 
ascribed to mere chance or fortune, that 
being nothing, but ought to be attributed 
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