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1810.)  Extracis from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters. $45 
EPITAPH, BY MALHERBE,. 
The following epitaph, on a man of 
minety, 1s ingenious: 
Qui se love irrite Venvie ; : 
Juge de moi par le regret, f 
Qu’eut la Mort de m’oter la vie. ° 
UNION OF THE MEDICAL AND ECCLE- 
STASTIC PROFESSIONS. — 
Among the Egyptians, and among th 
Jews, it was of old aregular thing for the 
tlergy.to study medi¢me. Accommos 
dations for the sick were attached to the 
temples ; and Alexander the Great, when 
he sent for advice to the priests, offered 
to go and sleep under their care at the 
Serapeum. The Essenes, in like manner, 
employed, iv behalf of their patients, both 
medicine aud prayer. 
Much of this usage passed over to the 
Christian nonks, insomuch, that as soon 
as the education of the clergy came to 
be undertaken in the north*of Europe, it 
was held necessary to provide for them 
medical instructors., In the Capitulary 
issued by Charlemagne at Thionville, in 
805, it is enjoined, that in every cathe- 
dralschool medicine should be taught, 
In this country there is no deficiency 
of medical instruction; but there is per- 
haps of medical patronage. 
peopled neighbourhood, a country sure 
Zeon cannot earn enough to repay the» 
_ value of a liberal education. Why not, 
in every hundred or wapentake, set apart 
one ceniral ecciesiastic benefice, to be 
held by a medical tenure; to be made 
the successive reward, the pension of res 
treat, of the most active and skilful sur- 
geons of the district? ‘ 
ANECDOTE OF A PAINTER. 
Rembrandt, being in want of money, 
and finding his works of heavy vent, put 
into the newspapers that he was dead, 
and advertised a public sale of the finish- 
ed and unfinished paintings in his house. 
Crowds flocked to the auction. eager to 
possess one cf the last.efforts of so great 
a master. The meanest sketch sold at 
a price, which entire pictures bad never 
fetched before. After collecting the 
proceeds, Rembrandt came to life again ; 
but the Dutch, who resent improbity 
€ven in genius, never would employ him 
after his resurrection. ~ 
CHINESE-CHARACTER.. 
The same flovrish, or character, of the 
Chinese, stands for an adulterous woman, 
and tor traitorous. correspondence. It is 
he the Jewish prophets should 
pont nuelly employ. this very metaphor ; 
find describe, as the adultery of Jeru- 
THLY Mac. No. 205, 
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par 
In a thinly- . 
salem, that traitorous correspondence 
with the Mgyptian court, which tende 
to separate Palestine from the Babylo- 
nians. Were these characters already 
employed , throughout civilized Asia? 
Were they those of which the Jewess 
Maria (Syncelli Chronographia, anno 
5058, page 248), taught the use to Des 
mocritus of Abdera? Ifso, they would 
throw light on thé hieroglyphs of the 
‘Egyptians, and derive historic elucidas 
tion from them. a 
DEAF AND DUMB. 
Three writers have lately published 
concerning the instruction of the deaf 
and dumb: at Paris, the abbé Sicard; at 
Berlin, professor Eschke; and at Lon- 
don, Dr. Watson. They all agree in 
considering attempts at articulation as 
needless tor the purpose of associating 
‘together the ideas of words and things. 
A picture-dictionary of rare objects, and. 
the exhibition of common objects, is 
found to_be the best medium of provie 
ding that fund of nomenclature for visual 
ideas, which is- afterwards extended to 
the abstract ideas. Ifthe curious ob- 
servations of these experienced men be 
correct, it is clear that apes, and indeed 
all animals that can, guide a pen, might 
be taught to use written: human languages 
with as much correctness as the deaf 
and dumb, The Turks are fond of 
founding hospiials for dumb — animals: 
would’ it not be worth while to attempt 
their literary instruction? . How much 
the animals could tell us of the nature of 
instinct and thought ! 
. PAINTED GLASS, E 
One of the uses of painted glass, is re# 
corded by a French satiris.; 
Si pour votre noblesse il vous manque des 
titres, 
Il faudra recourir a quelques vieilles vitresy 
Ci nous ferons entrer d*une adroite fagon 
Une devise antique avec votre Ecusson. 
The love of heraldic distinction is a fit 
basis for bringing back the art of pait- 
ing on glass. [tis indeed content wit! 
splendid colouring and unshaded deli- 
neation, and is indifferent about truth of 
contour, and beauty of execution; but in 
this, it typefies its nature, which covets: 
rather praise than justice, illustration 
than definition, conspicuity than appro 
bation. And as the pedigrees of the 
herald prepared the chromicles of the 
historian, so biazonry can insensibly give 
rise to the art of picturesque deline- 
ations ag, : 
Vera x 
BXERESSION 
