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who will in future occupy their place, and have the 

 field of science under their review, the good effects 

 might very soon appear. If this attempt can, by your 

 attention, be prepared for a place in the Bee, it will 

 highly favour your constant reader, 



Physicophilologus. 



ANECDOTE OF JAMES I. 



James, the first of England, and sixth of Scotland, who 

 was no way deficient in sense, or knowledge, or wit, 

 seems to have been remarkably deficient in the no lefs 

 important talent of steadinefs or vigour of mind. It 

 is said he knew well enough his own defect ; and that 

 he was once told of it in a very curious manner from 

 the pulpit. He heard of a famous preacher,who, accord- 

 ing to the fafliion of the times, was very witty in his 

 sermons, and peculiarly happy in his choice of texts. 

 James got this person to preach before him ; who, 

 with all suitable gravity, gave out his text in the 

 following words : 'James, first and sixth, in the lat- 

 ter part of the verse. " He that wavereth is like a 

 wave of the sea, driven by the winds and tofsed." 

 *' He is at me already," said the king. The text is 

 genuine, and the application of it witty, even inde- 

 pendently of the pun, which seems so well suited to 

 the tast e of the times, and especially of James andl 

 his court. 



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