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of sail-cloth, one, half an ell at the least, of unequal breadth, but in some part very broad; the other, about half a yard long, of the breadth of a pudding-bag. These found wrapped in the bottom of the stomach; the book above them.

"The title of the book, being opened, was on the top of every page—“ Preparation to the Crosse." It was printed in an English letter, which, by the fashion, spelling of some words, as sande for sand, easyar for easier and the like, seemed to be written about the end of king Henry VIII. wherein I was afterwards fully confirmed by some other passages, if all be of one author.

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When I first saw it, it seemed almost turned into a jelly, and consumed; yet, though it were loathsome then to handle or stand over, yet, finding the table of the two books of the Preparation to the Crosse in the middle parts, and so not so slimy, with a tender lifting with my knife, I read them all, put clean paper between these leaves to preserve them, and since escribed all, being the contents of every several chapter. The first was A Preparation to the Crosse, and how it must be patiently borne. I took special notice of two other :

"1. If thou be tempted of the faith of thy parents: as, wherefore believest not thou that which thy forefathers have believed?

"2. If thou be tempted of strange religion, of worshipping of saints, pictures or images, or men.' There was another book at the end of these, in whose title-leaf the first of the contents was A Letter, which was written to the faithful Followers of Christ's Gospell.

"I saw all with mine own eyes, the fish, the maw, the pieces of sail-cloth, the book, and observed all I have written; only I saw not the opening of the fish, which not many did, being upon the fishwoman's stall in the market, who first cut off his head, to which the maw hanging, and seeming much stuffed with somewhat, it was searched, and all found as aforesaid. He that had had his nose as near as I yester-morning, would have been persuaded there was no imposture here without witness. The fish came from Lynn. How they fed him there, I know not."

EPIGRAM.

Though 'tis a fate that's pretty sure,
If born a poet to be poor,

I'd rather be a bard by birth,

Than live the richest dunce on earth.

PODOLOGY.

WHEN Dr. Gall first announced his new system of Craniology, the wits of Paris found it a good subject on which to exercise their talents, and it was attacked with all the light artillery of jokes and epigrams. Among others, Mercier, the author of the Tableau de Paris, entered the lists with his podology against craniology, in a squib, in which he contended, that "it is not in the head that ideas reside, nor by the head that man differs from other animals; that a man without a head would not, on that account, be less reflecting; in short, that the head says nothing, does nothing, and contributes nothing to the observation of man. It is his foot which does every thing. It is in the foot that we must seek and find the stamp of man's original dignity. In the foot? Yes, sir, in the foot! Look at the footman, who smiles at your surprize-is it not the foot which supports the head? Does not the foot express anger and indignation? In Spain, all matters of love and gallantry begin with the foot. The foot, in China, plays the first part. There is nothing more rude, than to tread upon another's foot: when a man gets intoxicated, his foot refuses to carry him in that state of debasement; in fact, the foot cannot lie like the mouth and eyes. You must perceive, then, that the foot has all those qualities which prove a man to be a thinking being, or, in other words, the foot is the seat of the soul. If you would know, therefore, whether a woman is tender or faithless, if a man has the understanding of Montesquieu, or the folly of, instead of looking at his skull, you must see his foot. Yes, good Dr. Gall; you shall see my head, and I will examine your feet."

"A SPECIMEN OF THE SCOTS REVIEW."

A CLEVER jeu de esprit appeared in Edinburgh in 1774, entitled "A Specimen of the Scots Review." It consisted of thirty pages, neatly printed in octavo, but without the name of any printer or publisher. It professed to give a prospectus and a specimen of a new Review, but the whole object of the writer appeared to be to laugh at some persons who were obnoxious to him, and particularly to ridicule the virulence, and to lower the pretensions of those who had signalized themselves by their attacks upon the philosophical writings of Hume. In this pamphlet, a promise was held out that the "arch-infidel" was himself to be reviewed, in the first place;

and next, "those authors who have waged an holy war against him." Of these a list is given with their characters, the delineation of which, in no very favourable colours, appears to have exhausted the main object of the piece, though one or two gentle hits are levelled at the historian himself.

This jeu d'esprit naturally attracted the attention of Hume, from its prominent reference to himself, and he has recorded his opinion of it in the following letter to Mr. Home, the author of the tragedy of " Douglas."

"Dear John,

"St. Andrew's Square, 4th June, 1774.

"The inclosed came to hand to-day, and, as I take it to be directed to you, I have sent it you. If, on opening it, you find otherwise, you may return it me, that I may find the true,

owner.

"You have seen, no doubt, the specimen of a Scotch Review. My first conjecture was, that Carlyle was the author; but Dr. Blair has convinced me that it is much more probably the production of your spiritual guide, Tom Hepburn. But, whoever be the father, the child has a great deal of salt, and spirit, and humour. I wish he would continue, though at the hazard of my getting a rap over the knuckles from time to time; for I see in this hero the spirit of a Drawcansir, who spares neither friend nor foe. I think I can reckon about twenty people, not including the king, whom he has attacked in this short performance. I hope all his spleen is not exhausted. I should desire my compliments to him, were I not afraid that he would interpret the civility as paying black mail to him. "I am, dear John, "Yours sincerely, "DAVID HUME."

BISHOP WATSON'S APOLOGY FOR THE BIBLE.

THE most important and popular work that the bishop of Llandaff ever wrote, was his Apology for the Bible," in answer to Paine's Age of Reason. It was published in 1796, and was of singular service in stopping that torrent of infidelity which Paine had excited. Mr. David Dale, the cotton-manufacturer, of New Lanark, was so pleased with the bishop's "Apology," that he asked and obtained permission to print 3000 copies at his own expense, to be distributed among his own workmen, and many thousands were gratuitously cir

culated in other parts of England and Scotland. The work was, indeed, honoured with the particular notice of royalty itself; and his majesty, George the Fourth, when Regent, caused the following letter to be transmitted to the author.

"My Lord,

Carlton-house, May 4th, 1812.

"It affords me the greatest satisfaction to have it in command from the Prince Regent to make known to your lordship, a circumstance which he is sure will, on every account, afford your lordship equal gratification to that which he has himself experienced from it. After dinner yesterday, at Carlton-house, the conversation turned upon the general immorality and profligacy of the present day, when principles and opinions, subversive of all religion and morality, were not only held by many, but studiously endeavoured to be instilled into the minds of others. One of the most violent of these, a Sussex baronet, was mentioned by a Mr. Tyrwhitt, (who, I believe, is not unknown to your lordship,) as having uttered opinions in his hearing so infamous and atheistical, as to force him to leave the company, first, however, exacting from him a promise, that he would attentively peruse a book he should next morning send him. That book was your lordship's 'Apology for the Bible;' and yesterday, the baronet's answer was read, expressive of the greatest thankfulness for having had it put into his hands, as it not only had decidedly and clearly proved the error and fallacy of every opinion he had before entertained, but had afforded him a degree of secret comfort and tranquillity that his mind had previously been a stranger to.

"I have the honour to be, my Lord, "Your lordship's very much obliged and obedient servant, "W. BRADDYLL."

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To this letter the bishop of Llandaff returned the following answer; it shows the almost unprecedented popularity of his work, which had thus been honoured with royal notice and attention, though the author was not rewarded, but lived and died prelate of the poorest diocese in the British do

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"The Prince Regent judges rightly of my character; for the circumstance which he has had the kind condescension to command you to make known to me does indeed fill my

heart with real joy. When the Apology for the Bible' was first published in 1796, I received many letters of thanks, not only from individuals, acknowledging the benefit they had derived from the perusal of it, but from public bodies in Ireland and America. I permitted many thousand copies of it to be printed in Great Britain, without any profit, or wish of profit, to myself, and yet I cleared above £1000 by its publication, which sum, accruing from such a source, had my family been less, or my means of providing for it greater, I should have had the greatest satisfaction in consecrating to some work of charity; nay, I was so bent on doing this, that I drew up the subjoined inscription for it:

Rerum universitatis conditori conservatorique

Deo optimo, maximo, unico;

Ob vitam mortalem sub ejus Numine feliciter actam,
Ob spem vita immortalis ev Kptorrw feliciter agenda,
Hoc quantulumcunque grati animi monumentum,
Sacrum esse voluit

RICARDUS LANDAVENSIS.

For the very obliging manner in which you have signified to me this instance of the prince's remembrance of a retired bishop, I beg you to accept my best thanks, and to esteem me your faithful friend and servant,

"R. LANDAFF."

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STORY OF MR. AND MRS. DUSTAN.

(From the MS. Travels of the late President Dwight, of Yale College.)

THE late President Dwight was at great pains to collect as much information of the early history of the United States, and as many facts and anecdotes of the inhabitants, particularly during the period of Indian warfare, as was in his power. In this he was more successful than could have been expected; and it will probably be owing to his exertions, that many very interesting events, which occurred in the first century after the settlement of the country by white inhabitants, are not in a great measure lost even to the present generation. The following account of the sufferings and heroism of one family in Massachusetts will, we have no doubt, be read with deep

interest.

"Haverhill was settled in the year 1637, and incorporated in 1645. During the first seventy-five years from its settle

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