"Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which 

 prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, 

 and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding genera- 

 tions change the fashion of their morals, with the fashion of their bats 

 and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their pat- 

 ronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors." MACAULAY. 



"// / were to begin life again, I would go on the turf to get friends. 

 They seem to me the only people who bold close together. I don't know 

 why; it may be that each knows something that might bang the other, 

 but the effect is delightful and most peculiar." HARRIET, LADY 



ASHBURTON, tO LORD HOUGHTON. 



