4b6 ANNUAL I^EGISTER, 1794 



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His example and admomtions are 

 principally instrumental in concili- 

 ating new merfibefs, and rciiderin;^ 

 them more docile and tractable ; he 

 has completely won M". Bhint's es- 

 teem, and has never been known to 

 raise the echo himself, but in the 

 cause of unprotected innocence, or 

 forsaken truth. 



Extracts from^ Mrs. Piozzi's British 

 Synonymy. 



Narration, account, recital. 



IN order lo giVe a ^ood account of 

 the fact (say we) it' is necessary 

 to hear a clear reci/aZ of the circum- 

 stances ; but if >.'e mean to make a 

 pleasing narration, those circum- 

 stances should not be dw^lt on too 

 minutely, but rather one selected 

 from t-he rest, to set in a full lij^ht. 

 Whoever nieans to please in con- 

 versation, seeing no persoii more at- 

 tended to than he who tells an agree- 

 able story, concludes too hastily that 

 hisowu fame will be firmly establish- 

 ed by a like means ; and so gives his 

 time up to the collection and recital 

 of anecdotes. Here, however, is our 

 adventurer likelyenough to fail ; for 

 eitherhis fact is too notorious, and he 

 sees his audience turn even involun- 

 tarily away from a tale told them 

 yesterday perhaps by a more pleasing 

 narrator ; or it is too obscure, and 

 incapable of interesting his hearers. 

 Were we to investigate the reason 

 why narratives please better in a 

 mixed company, than sentiment; we 

 might discover that he wtio draws 

 from his own mind to entertain his 

 circle will soon be tempted to dog- 

 aiatizc, and assume the air, v/ith the 

 powers of a teacher; while the man, 

 who is ever ready to tell one some- 

 what unknown before, adds an idea 



to the hstendr s stock, without lolrc*' 



ingon us that of our own inferiority-- ■ 

 he is in possession of a fact more thaa 

 we are — that's all ; and he communi- 

 cates that fact for our amusement. 



Party, division in the state, faction , 



These cannot be supposed natu- 

 rally and necessarily syndntmbus, 

 whilst each jOa>7!/ in its turn calls the 

 opposite one a_/al"</o7/, with intent to 

 disgrace ^t in the eye of such as la- 

 ment those divisions in a state vi'hich 

 force them into the lists on either, 

 side. When England was rent with 

 commotions in the latter end of king. 

 Charles I. the first appellative of 

 scorn was thrown by those who 

 flocked round the royal standard, at 

 their republican opponents, whonl 

 tl;ie ca^aliers now first called round 

 heads, from their manner of wearing 

 their haircut short, or at most curled 

 in one row about the neck beliind j 

 and it is observable, the rigid Pro.*^ 

 testants of Germany still hope some 

 merit may be claimed by being seen 

 cut of powder, with sleek round 

 heads, and for the most part a bright 

 brass comb stuck behind; while gen- 

 tlemen in Italy and Spain are yet 

 going by the name of cavalieri since 

 the holy war, to which they v/ent on 

 horseback, while plebeians walked 

 on foot. But a new distinction soon 

 broke out in Britain, were the last- 

 mentioned called themselves petiti- 

 oners, ar.d the loyalists, abhorrers, 

 from their repeated expressions of 

 the abhorrence they felt against 

 men who disturbed their sovereigh's 

 and the public's tranquillity. Into 

 the abusive names whig and tory, 

 however, all others soon dropped, 

 and by these names the arietocrates 

 and democratcs of our country have 

 till now been knov.'n. Of these, 



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