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ly, though indirectly, deduced from the old proverb, “Excessive 
sorrow is exceeding dry.” Hence I may conclude it as a common 
practice, that whether a man be in grief or in love, he will eat a 
good dinner if it be set before him, and the stomach calls for it. 
Montgomery, the poet, thinks with me in his verses while in pri- 
son, 
“ When drest I to the yard repair 
And breakfast on the pure fresh air : 
But though this choice Castalian cheer, 
Keeps both the head and stomach clear, 
For reasons strong enough with me 
I mend the meal with toast and tea. 
Now air and fame, as poets sing, 
Are both the very self-same thing, 
Yet bards are not cameleons quite, 
And heavenly food is very light ; 
Who ever din’d or supped on fame 
And went to bed upon a name ?” 
So in the old song, Bacchus very shrewdly asks Appollo, 
« Who ever got fat at the sound of a string ?” 
Now, every common practice, that is, a practice universally fol- 
lowed in all ages and nations, may be considered as a law of nature 
and of nations. Thus, Grotius, L. 1. cap. 1. sect. 12. parag. 1. 
sub fin. Juris noturalis esse colligitur , id , quod ajmd omnes gen - 
ies , aut moratiores omnes , tale esse creditur. JSTam universalis 
effectus universalem rcquirit causam ; talis autem exist imationis^ 
causa vix ulla videtur esse fiosse , fir&ter sensum ifisum commu- 
nis qui dicitur .* In support whereof, according to the laudable 
practice of his day, (now almost suppressed through the ignorance, 
idleness, or plagiaristical concealment of modern authors) he 
gives us eleven quotations : to wit, one from Hesiod, a case di- 
rectly in point, as the lawyers say ; running upon all fours ; jirofuri- 
um quarto modo , as the logicians have it ; together with a dictum 
of Heraclitus ; three passages from Aristotle ; one from Cicero ; 
one from Seneca ; one from Quintilian ; one from Porphyry ; one 
from Andronicus Rhodius ; and one from Plutarch. To makeup 
the baker’s dozen, he adds in a note, another from Aristotle ; 
another from Seneca; and another from Quintilian ; and thrown 
* This is the foundation of the wonderful discoveries in Dr, Beattie’s 
Essay on Truth, 
