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gitil a’y a fer pfonne qui la. regreite plus que 
TLL a 
VIII. CONJUGAL WIT. 
Another French lady wrote this letter 
to her hufband. ** Fe wous écris, parce- 
gueje wai rien & faire s je finis, parceque 
fe wat rien a dive >.” 
_- IX, MONKS AND BRIARS, 
What you fay is perfectly juft. Some 
degree of learning is neceflary even to 
compofe a novel. How many modern 
writers confound monks and friars! Yet 
they whey almoft as different as laymen 
and Monachifm was an old in- 
Ritution for laymen. ‘The triars, freres, 
er brothers, were firf{ inftituted in the 
thirteenth century, in order, by their 
preachirg, to opps te the ioterds. They 
united prieithood with morachifm; but 
while the monks were chiefly confined to 
their refpective houfes, the friars were 
wa indering abeut as ete and con- 
fefiors: This gav ae offence to the 
fecular cler SY¥5 Fae were thus deprived of 
profits and inheritances. . Hence the fa- 
tyric and impure figures of friars and 
nuns, nour old chuiches. Do you re- 
member any example ‘of retaliation?) I 
fuppote there were fi milan fe els on the fe- 
cular clerey in the cnape els of {riaries new 
abolifhed {. 
x MR. WOLD 
Mr. Hollis is always publifhing’ re- 
publican books; and yet profefles great 
Veneration for our conftitution. I cannot 
reconcile this; our conititution beme, in 
its eae Te res an o! igarchy, the en 
perhaps, of all others, the moit oppofite 
to a repubtic. 
Nota. Before the French revolution, 
df iefts. 
is. 
Mr. Walpole was. fo warm a friend of 
freedom, that he was almoft a republican. 
‘Fhe change of his fentiments will be de- 
lineated in the clofe of thefe anecdotes. 
KI.. SYMPTOMS OF INSANITY. 
.My poor nephew, Lord *#* *, was de- 
ranged. The frit fymptom that ape 
was, his fending.a chaldron of coals as - 

aca loae esl ey €, yOu, Sir, noone regrets her 
more-than 1.7? 
7 <kiwrite 
todo; le — 
ebing to fay.” 
{ Grofs errors of this kind appear in the 
writings of Mrs. 
Lewis. ‘© The Monk” of the latter, both in 
his beok and play, being in fa a friar,.a 
being of a very ditferent defcription, Epir, 
o you, becaufe I have nothing 
my letter, becaufe i have no- 
RADCLIFFE, and Mr... 
C Original Anecdotes by the late Horace WY alpale, 
a preferit to at Prince of Wales; 6ii 
learnix g that he was leaded» with debts. 
He delig ghted in what he called book-hunt@ 
img. Lhis notable diverfion confifted in 
ta aking a volume of a book, and hidingit 
in fome fecret part of the libraniys among 
volumes of fimilar binding andy fizes 
When he had forgot where the game, lays 
he hunted till he found it. 
XII. A LONGING WOMAN, 
Madame du. Chatelet, ( Voltaive’s 
Emilie) proving with child again, after 
a long interval, and king Staniflaus joking 
with her hufband on it, hereplied, ¢ Abs 
Sire, elle cn avoit fi forte enwie !’—** Ton 
ani, {aid the old king, ¢ c‘éteit une en= 
Vie a une femme groffe *.” 
A PRETTY METAFHOR. 
A young lady marrying a man, fhe 
loved, and leaving many friends in town, 
to retire with him into the country, Mrs, 
D. faid prettily, “She has turned one 
and twenty fhillings ito a guinea.” 
ie & 
XIII. 
XIV« ROYAL FAVOUR. 
A low Frenchman bragged. that the 
king had ipelay to him. Being afked 
what his. majefty, had faid, he replied, 
“* He bad me ftand out of | his way.’ 
xV. MADAM DU BARRY. 
A great French lady, who was one of 
firtt to vifit Madam du Barry, after 
fhe was known te be the royal miftrefs, 
jufiifying herlelf to her niece on that ac- — 
count, faid, ‘It is reported that the 
king gave an hundred thoufand livres to 
countenance ber; but it is not true.’?— 
‘* No, madam,” replied the niece nobly, 
te @idate fay it isnot trae; for it would 
have been too fittle.”” 
GENEALOGY. 
A lord of the court being prefented for 
the firft time, Louis XIV. laid afterwards, 
that he did not know the late lord of that 
name had had a fon, having been reck- 
oned impotent. “ Ob Sire!” faid Ko- 
quelaure, ‘ ds ont été tous unpuifjans - 
pere en fils.” 
the 
fhe 
XVI... FROOFS OF 
fRE AND ADDISON. 
A Tee is told of Voltaire and Addi- 
fon at a I do not believe Vol- 
taire was in England while Addifon was 
alive. = 
XV. VOLTS 
avern 
tase 

* 6 Ah! Sire, fhe longed fo much for it.” 
—‘* My friend, it was the longing of a wo- 
man with child.” 
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